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Veterans who saw fossil fuel drawbacks in combat lead charge for clean energy
2013-11-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Dave Belote was sleeping on his cot at Camp Victory in Iraq early one morning in 2004 when he awoke to the sound of deadly mortar rounds exploding on base a scant 50 yards away. Suddenly, it clicked: "It would be a really good thing to stop paying people to shoot at us," he thought. "Those mortar shells we paid for indirectly, through our addiction to oil," the retired Air Force colonel told ClimateWire. "A lot of these terrorist organizations, al-Qaida and others, big chunks of their funding...
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Fires, smoke, floods are drawbacks of Alaska's hot summer
2013-08-17 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Alaska residents have been enjoying an unusually warm, sunny summer, but the pleasant weather has come at a cost: choking smoke from an extended wildfire season, flooding rivers due to fast-melting snow and glacial ice, and fish covered in algae. Wildfires have burned 1.25 million acres across Alaska this summer, according to the state's fire-management center, the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Seventy fires were active on Friday, including a 57,870-acre (23,400-hectare) blaze near Delta...
Electrically-efficient biofuels: the benefits and drawbacks
2013-03-14 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Despite biofuels promising to be more environmentally-friendly, critics have condemned their efficiency, labelling the technology too immature to be relied upon. By bypassing photosynthesis and using electricity, electrofuels could provide the requis
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Chicago may escape airline merger drawbacks
2013-02-13 22:45:51| Airlines - Topix.net
But if American Airlines and US Airways announce a deal as expected - possibly as soon as this week - Chicago travelers would be largely shielded from those downsides, experts say.
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