Word: underground
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...Global-warming concerns are driving engineers even harder. An unlikely trio of industry, the government and environmentalists wants to capture the carbon dioxide produced during combustion, the leading contributor to global warming, and store it deep underground. But that can only be accomplished-if it can be accomplished -with a gasification or liquiefaction plant. "With [current] plants there's no technology you can bolt on that really allows you to deal with that issue," says Jim Rogers, CEO of Cinergy. "We need to be building technologies that allow us to deal with...
...orchestrate their international drug ring and send hit men out to whack rivals down in the flatlands of Calabria and beyond. Three years ago, local police discovered that town funds had been used to construct an intricate system of escape hatches leading from the center of town through the underground sewage system to help wanted men flee the authorities. After pointing out several of the concrete covers now blocking the hatches, a police officer notes the surreptitious signals from a few locals as they pass by. It means, he says, "we're being watched." Part of what makes 'Ndrangheta...
...biogas digester," a simple, inexpensive device introduced to Yunnan by the Nature Conservancy (TNC) and catching on in other parts of the country, is cutting down on tree cutting. In place of a woodpile, the system gives homes a pigpen, toilet, greenhouse, underground tank and some rubber tubing. Waste--from the pigpen, the toilet and the odd kitchen scrap--ferments in the underground tank, heating the greenhouse and producing a steady stream of methane to power stoves and lamps. The greenhouse helps keep the tank warm in winter, and the by-product of the tank's digestion makes good fertilizer...
...self-styled “Indie Punk and Hardcore” label Epitaph’s Anti imprint, has Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel poised for widespread success. Since 1999’s “A2G” EP launched the group into the ranks of underground stardom with the anti-mainstream anthem “Deception,” Blackalicious has gone on a solidly successful run. They dropped the afro-centric opus “Nia” in 2000, followed by their genre-bending breakthrough “Blazing Arrow?...
...those tracks, as blissful as they may be, were only the honeymoon for the First Couple of Cartoon RappersL it is “The Mouse and the Mask” that finally meets the demand for an extended alliance between the hottest producer and rapper the underground has to offer...