Word: tars
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...deaths of insects and worms, their bodies so quickly absorbed by earth and weeds and road tar, devilishly strive to tell Ahmad that his own death will be just as small and final. Walking to school, he has noticed a sign, a spiral traced on the pavement in luminous ichor, angelic slime from the body of some low creature, a worm or snail of which only this trace remains. Where was the creature going, its path spiralling inward to no purpose? If it was seeking to remove itself from the hot sidewalk that was roasting it to death...
...Hansen: I should note that I don't make policy and my opinions are personal. We do need a strong disincentive for exploitation of the "worse than coal" energy sources such as tar sands and shale...
...best friend from high school goes to UNC, and last year she called me from a noisy and celebratory Franklin Street, where throngs of students in powder blue had gathered in the wake of the Tar Heels’ fifth national championship. When she saw Roy Williams out running around campus, she rolled down her window and screamed at him, and Ol’ Roy fired back with a smile and a thumbs...
...burn like regular coal. The IRS rule for transforming coal into synfuel--and getting the tax credit--requires only that the substance be chemically altered in some way. The alchemy that satisfies the IRS is a simple process: some plants spray newly mined coal with diesel fuel, pine-tar resin, limestone, acid or other substances--a practice that industry critics call "spray and pray." Other operators mix coal-mining waste with chemicals, coat it with latex and blend it with untreated coal to form briquettes. (For an earlier story on the scheme, see "The Great Energy Scam," TIME...
...Chinese, the Indians, going to keep about a 15% interest." A deal like that could make him a billionaire and, of course, set him up for the next big play. "We're looking at the Black Sea, Russia, maybe the Caspian Sea area. We're getting into tar sands--getting into that in a big way," he says. "That's what the next generation of wildcatting will be doing." Van Dyke plans to be there...