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Makes electricity by the wind, so the aircraft descending without power would generate electricity. everything turns out again. so it is theorized maybe the plane ran out of fuel, eight minutes later, it is generating electricity again, and this acar system sends one last ping before the plane presumably hits the water. that's the theory, brooke. we're still working on trying to test it in the simulator. >> martin savidge, thank you very much. from the partial ping to the families, we can't begin to understand what they're going through here, almost three weeks since this plane took off. the t...

Advantage of available modern technology. >> reporter: the proposed new standards would roughly cut emissions from coal plants in half. new plants would need new technology that captures carbon so it's not released in the air. one coal industry group says that would make the process of generating electricity 60% to 80% more expensive for an individual plant. >> it is too costly. it is not ready for prime time but it's also in an environment and a market where we have other options that are much less costly. >> reporter: coal energy advocates argue the industry generates 40% of the nation's ele...

"a basket of commodities." and nothing gets the ratings up like a basket of commodities, but we do need to explain this for a second because it's very important. a gold standard means it's dollars backed by gold. but problems with the gold standard are legion, but our currency would fluctuate with the global price of gold as opposed to the needs of our economy. south africa finds a new gold mine, currency's all different. pegging the dollar to a basket of commodities works the same way. the currency fluctuates along gold, soybeans, oil, whatever else we choose to put in the basket. and like wi...

There and you have light sensors you so you don't have to worry about a home owner, and you're going to save a boat load of money because you're using solar power, et cetera. >> the fact is that people don't really understand the economics of solar right now. as of today, the current technology of solar is not ready for prime time. it doesn't save you enough money to pay for the capital that you have put in, up front. to make your solar panels pay off. the fact is that there are lots of innovations happening. my company, solar 3-d is developing is new solar cell, which is going to reduce the c...

20,000 but 60,000 barrels a day. they were negligent along the whole line. rather than making bp accountable, we are looking at ways of rewarding them. instead of trying to find alternative ways of generating electricity after fukushima as well, the republicans are out there, believe it or not, in their budget that came out this year, they zeroed out the loan guarantees for the wind and solar industry as they left them in the nuclear industry and cut no tax breaks out going to the oil industry including bp. that's the agenda. it's very clear what is going on. that's why i think, once again, li...