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On Sunday morning, scientists and volunteers struggled to get some of the 55 false killer whales that washed up on a beach near Cape Town, South Africa, back into the frigid water. [More]

Geothermal plant would initially power Eden Project buildings but eventually aims to supply local community and National GridPlans to build the UK's first geothermal plant that would use heat from granite outcrops beneath the Earth's surface to power a small town were unveiled today.Initially the plant would be used to supply the Eden Project in Cornwall but could potentially feed spare carbon-neutral electricity winto the National Grid.Eden and its commercial partner claim, EGS Energy, believe this is the first in a series of projects that could lead to Cornwall's 'hot rocks' supplying up to one-tenth of the UK's electricity.The government is watching the plans closely and Ed Miliband, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, attended the launch of the scheme in Westminster.Matt Hastings, Eden's energy manager, said: 'It's a massively exciting project - a way of making sure Eden has a source of green power but also of feeding heat and power into the local community and i

Geothermal plant would initially power Eden Project buildings but eventually aims to supply local community and National GridPlans to build the UK's first geothermal plant that would use heat from granite outcrops beneath the Earth's surface to power a small town were unveiled today.Initially the plant would be used to supply the Eden Project in Cornwall but could potentially feed spare carbon-neutral electricity winto the National Grid.Eden and its commercial partner claim, EGS Energy, believe this is the first in a series of projects that could lead to Cornwall's 'hot rocks' supplying up to one-tenth of the UK's electricity.The government is watching the plans closely and Ed Miliband, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, attended the launch of the scheme in Westminster.Matt Hastings, Eden's energy manager, said: 'It's a massively exciting project - a way of making sure Eden has a source of green power but also of feeding heat and power into the local community and i

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HOLCOMB, Kans.--Kyle Nelson points upward to show off the six-story-high main boiler of Holcomb Station. The 370-megawatt coal-fired power plant sits on the rolling prairie of southwestern Kansas just a few miles from the small town of Holcomb, population 2,100, roughly 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of the Colorado border. Enormous metal pipes crisscross far overhead in a facility where the temperature is a little too hot to ignore, and the machinery's din is deafening.Nelson, a senior vice president and chief operating officer at Sunflower Electric Power Corp. unhooks a heavy latch and swings opens a large metal hatch to reveal the 26-year-old plant's fiery heart: a furnace where coal-fueled flames burning nonstop at about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius) heat a 55,000-gallon (208,200-liter) boiler to produce 2,400 pounds per square inch (170 kilograms per square centimeter) of high-pressure steam. The hulking gray metal turbine that converts the steam into electricit

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