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A Coal-Burning Power Plant, Before and After

Though the EU has been clamoring to reduce carbon emissions, Germany is in the process of building 26 new coal-burning power plants. Here you can see a gigantic excavator machine mining brown coal near the Boxberg power plant yesterday. Consider this a "before" picture. Want to see what happens after the excavation? More »

7:00 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Annalee Newitz
4,109 views, 36 comments

Latest by corpore-metal: If you look hard enough, you'll find that a lot of green energy sources have overlooked drawbacks. Think about the steel mills that make the turbines blades for wind and tidal generators. Think about the copper mining in Peru for more »