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You read stories in Europe where there are in small apartments zero-net energy consumption apartments. There is–you know, body heat keeps a lot of the apartment warm. You can’t do this in a big apartment with a few people.

DOE Says Carbon Capture Programs Could Take 10+ Years to Complete

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., recently received a response to their April 21 letter to Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu that confirms the lawmakers’ concern that there is no assurance that the carbon capture and sequestration technologies that the Waxman-Markey global warming bill heavily relies on will be commercially viable in time to meet the mandatory 2025 deadline.

The American Spectator : Politics, Economics, and Green Jobs 


Having elevated global warming to "crisis" with no particular foresight, the political class is now in need of an acceptable solution -- one that appears not to cost the electorate too much in money, jobs, and convenience. Violà, "green jobs!" They will not merely clean the world, but simultaneously solve our economic problems.

The challenge that green jobs' creation and sustaining present is brushed blithely away as a modern day Space Race. Of course, the fact that the 1960s' Space Race was relatively easy -- taking a man to the moon and safely back -- is overlooked. That still amounted to taking just one person to one place. Today's green revolution proposes figuratively to transport the entire planet to another place.

Feb '08: YouTube - Michael Douglas promotes climate fraud on behalf of The Nature Conservancy

Experts predict that by the end of this century, land and water resources will become scarce and climate change will irreversibly alter our ... all » planet. But what the experts haven't calculated is the power of the human will to come together to protect the future of our natural world.