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Wind, water and sun beat biofuels, nuclear and coal for clean energy – Radiocápsula RCP/CPR

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The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering them in the earth, is not clean at all, he asserts.

Health gets a C

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After evaluating Puerto Rican health in five different areas, local health got an average grade of C.

A mistake to kill the monkeys

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Edmundo Kraiselburd, director of the Center for Primate Reserach of the University of Puerto Rico, thinks that killing the monkeys tha are being captured in the southwest of the Island is a mitake, because they could be used for research purposes. The scientists says that his Center has the technology to "clean" the monkeys of certain viruses and diseases.
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