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Science and Soul: Bloom Box

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I admit, I have been absolutely awful about posting as of late. I apologize. Work and assignments have kept me very busy indeed. Now that spring break has rolled around, I am back…at least for a little while. Perhaps you saw the 60 minutes segment as well, but if you didn’t, I am going to write [...]

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Science & Soul: Clean Coal My Butt

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I have been very busy and have not had time to post or read others’ blogs. Sorry ’bout that. Clean coal technology aims to permanently capture and isolate carbon dioxide gas resulting from coal combustion so that it does not contribute to global warming. The most promising method of sequestering carbon dioxide is carbon capture [...]

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