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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (103301)	3/28/2007 2:46:11 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361390

Al Gore and Barack Obama co-operating now toward a Presidential ticket is America's best hope agoracosmopolitan.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (103301)	3/28/2007 3:19:05 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361390

"The worst case is painful to contemplate. If the US and/or Israel follow through on their implied threats to deal militarily with Iran, this may constitute the most dangerous and fateful international gamble in decades." This is all a lot of noise IMO. Iran has been content to sit back and let the US army get softened up by the unwinnable war in Iraq to the point where Bush needed to send reinforcements (surge) whose real purpose is to fight off an invasion from Iran after the USA or Israelis attack Iran. At first, just as in Iraq, the Iranians will lose some infrastructure and some weaponry but they are entirely capable of invading Iraq and wiping out every living US soldier in the region. Anyway its not going to happen because Putin says no to an invasion. Thats the FINAL word. If he says to the US they better scale this down then he has the last word as he is capable of destroying the USA 100 times over. People forget that both the US and Russia have enough weapons to destroy the Earth 100 times. All this war stuff is rubbish IMO. It won't happen. The UK has no business being in Iranian waters OR Iraqi waters. They should go home and behave themselves.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (103301)	3/28/2007 9:40:56 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361390

BusinessWeek Online Connecticut Deal Powers FuelCell Shares Wednesday March 28, 8:08 am ET FuelCell Energy (NasdaqGM:FCEL - News) said Mar. 27 that it won more than $200 million of business providing the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund with six power projects totaling around 68 megawatts, in the latest example of how alternative energy businesses continue growing. So far the Danbury, (Conn.) company s power plants have generated more than 150 million kW of power using a variety of fuels including renewable wastewater gas, biogas from beer, onion, and milk processing as well as natural gas and other hydrocarbon fuels. In its recent agreement with the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, FuelCell Energy will deliver more energy to entities in the state including the electric company Connecticut Light and Power, Stamford Hospital, Waterbury Hospital, and others. Fuel cells provide power with virtually no emissions, quietly and economically. "These selections are a major milestone for the whole industry, firmly establishing fuel cells role in deploying ultra-clean energy capacity," FuelCell Energy CEO R. Daniel Brdar said in a press release March 27. After the news investors bid up the company s stock by 20.6% to $8.68 per share in afternoon New York trading on the Nasdaq March 27. As experts worry about the threats of global warming and oil supply scarcity, alternative energy is still hot. FuelCell Energy isn t the only company to trumpet its growing business recently. First Solar (NasdaqGM:FSLR - News) announced in February that its net income swung to a profit of more than $8 million during the three months ended Dec. 30, compared to a loss of $7.2 million during the same period a year ago. CEO Michael J. Ahearn has been trying to boost the solar cell company s production capacity, taking steps like expanding business in Ohio and building a manufacturing plant in Germany. In another recent example, Evergreen Solar (NasdaqGM:ESLR - News) said in October that it agreed to ship around $100 million of solar cells to Mainstream Energy, which installs residential and commercial solar electric systems. In the past 12 months, Evergreen Solar had pulled together six contracts collectively worth $700 million.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (103301)	3/28/2007 11:33:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361390

Emissions soar from UK generators Carbon dioxide emissions from Britain's power stations have grown markedly in recent years, a report has concluded. Commissioned by the environmental group WWF from consultants IPA, it found that UK power sector emissions rose by nearly 30% between 1999 and 2006. As gas prices have risen faster than coal, generating companies have used more of the higher carbon fuel. WWF says that the "dash for gas" of the early 1990s has been replaced by a de facto "roll to coal". This is a disgrace for Britain Keith Allott, WWF UK power sector emissions were 6% higher in 2006 than in the preceding year, it said. The government admitted that emissions have risen in recent years, but said that could be tackled with new initiatives. Game talk "This is a disgrace for Britain, and shows that for the past decade the government has talked a good game on climate change while failing dismally to tackle emissions from this highly polluting sector," said Keith Allott, head of climate change at WWF UK. "If the government is serious about climate change, the power sector has to be brought to heel, either through incentives or legislation, so that coal burn is dramatically reduced." In the early 1990s, the opening up of North Sea reserves prompted a move to gas, which saw coal-fired power stations close and cleaner gas-fired plants spring up in their place. Carbon emissions fell as a result - the main reason why Britain was able to adopt a relatively strict Kyoto Protocol target. "Emissions from electricity generation are down substantially on 1990 levels, the base year for our Kyoto target," said a spokeswoman for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). "They have risen more recently, something we are aiming to stem through measures to bring on more low-carbon energy. "Renewable energy in the UK has been growing at a rapid rate over recent years, from only 1.5% in 2001 to almost 5% today, and in May we'll publish our Energy White Paper to develop this and other low-carbon forms of energy even further." Low pressure Since 2002, coal prices have risen by about one-third and gas prices by two-thirds, with gas showing a lot more volatility. The various mechanisms designed to bring down emissions, such as the UK's Renewables Obligation and the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), have not been enough to combat this financial pressure towards coal. "It is conceivable that without these measures, emissions from the power sector would have been much higher," the report suggested. "However, the policy framework has clearly been insufficient to put the power sector onto a downward path." IPA sees a high price for carbon as a key driver towards lowering emissions in the power sector. The government admitted last year that it would fail to meet its longstanding commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by 2010. WWF said that even the government's longer-term targets, announced in the Climate Change Bill earlier this month, of CO2 reductions of about 30% by 2020 and 60% by 2050, would be in doubt unless it curbed the growth in coal burning for electricity. Story from BBC NEWS: news.bbc.co.uk Published: 2007/03/28 00:29:33 GMT © BBC MMVII