From the Editor

My favorite line from the coal industry flaks is their boast that the United States has enough coal reserves to power the country for another 200 or so years.

Really?, I feel like saying, only 200 years! Because according to my back-of-the-envelope calculations we’ve got, like, a billion years of wind and solar energy ready to go.

I never cease to be amazed that, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the United States gets about half of its electricity from coal. In the era of the iPad, Twitter, and Google, our society can seem all shiny and gleaming. Yet we run those high-tech wonders on a filthy …more

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