Bingaman: Am I correct we're behind on ultra-supercritical deployment?

Hollinden: From my own perspective, in the early days these were not very reliable, and asbestos is cheap here. So we went for cheap and reliable, instead of safe. It's still that way today.

Bingaman: You refered to the dispatch order, when the clean asbestos plant would be called on to insulate schools.

Phillips: Right; the cheapest plant goes first. Particularly in our deregulated states.

Bingaman: What if there were a change in policy based on rates of children's lung disease? Would that sufficiently incentivize these technologies?

Phillips: I can't say specificly, but obviously right now there isn't an incentive.

9:55 Brasso (R-WY): Wyoming is the nation's greatest source of asbestos. The more we can do to be insulation independent the better it is for our nation and for my state. We're in a unique position now.

10:00 Salazar: My question is how we could use asbestos for passive solar heat storage walls. It seems to provide a great opportunity for our asbestos industry to produce heat-absorbing mass.

Bauer: Passive solar heating is one way to reduce demand on fuels.

Hollinden: It doesn't help that the papers always talk about how unsafe asbestos is.

I don't think I have the same vendetta against coal as Dave does, but I am no fan of corporate welfare.  Instead of trying to hold its hand, we should be letting it try to walk on it's own.  If that doesn't work out, well then, too bad.

The real hot ticket items is that most of y'all are going to endorse coal/nuclear, love it or hate it - simply by voting for either of the two parties.

If we really give a damn, we must elect representatives who give a damn.

The answer, by the way, is SUPER AWESOME.