Paying $15 is paying to have it NOW.

If you wait to read it in a couple years, it will be much cheaper. Given the huge amount of written material available since the invention of the printing press, there is no real reason to read any fiction NOW, when reading it later will be just as entertaining.

Waiting a couple years or three e-books start costing closer to the amount of the author's royalties (if he was smart). I'm fine with paying a few bucks to the author. Maybe a few cents to the distribution chain.

Generally 3 to 4 bucks is what I like to pay. But Free is a good price a well.

Sequestering it is a lot simpler if you can simply draw if off the top of the CLOSED chamber rather than trying to scrub it out of the stack.
You've got half the battle won already.

What to do with it long term is another problem. But its a problem you would have anyway, so having the CO2 handed to you all
contained is better than where we are today.

Besides coal ash, it appears CO2 is the only by-produce that is not recycled back into the feed-stock.

But, hey, Clean Coal stories have to be knocked down immediately. We can't have it prove even partially successful under any
circumstance. /rollseyes.

Yeah, the writer, Pam Frost Gorder, is no dummy, but she knows who she is writing for.
 

They ran this for 9 days straight. They only stopped because they were tired. Scaling it up probably is not that much of a problem.
The bigger problem might be obtaining both the fuel and the oxidizers in quantity economically.

Coal powered that finely would be rather dangerous, because it has so much surface area. Exposure to air, any spark could set it
off. Handling it would require special care never to let it flow around or accumulate around the crushers. They might have to
make it in a slurry just for safety, then waste more heat drying it before use.

TFA shows them handling bottles of it, and even then they are wearing masks.

A better word might have been "oxidized" but the good professor probably was trying not to confuse the journalism major
who wrote the story with words too big for their tiny world view.

Lots of CO2 is produced, but it is retained in the chamber and captured, and oxygen and coal are fed in continuously.
They operated it for 9 days straight.

But no business would turn down the sale because you wanted to pay in cash. They would have someone drive it to the bank immediately, but they sure as hell aren't going to turn it down. Oddly enough, businesses that sell $90K cars aren't afraid of money.

In some parts of the Deep South, it is still the tradition to pay off a house with CASH money.
You go to the bank, negotiate your loan, and you pick up your cash money in a brief case.
Usually the bank will supply you with an armed security guard, who will accompany you to the seller, you exchange money for deed, and signatures all around, and the Security Guard accompanies the seller to his bank (if he wishes).

Its not unusual to carry around huge sums in this country.

But with a trunk full of weed and a bag full of wads, you are going to have a tough time convincing even your mom that the two have nothing to do with each other.

Well, maybe 80 would be too much.

Maybe 40, sounds better?

One credit hour usually means one hour a week for an academic semester, and a semester is usually around 12 to 15 weeks,
so that means 15 hours expended to earn one credit hour. Two days.
So a 40 credit hour course could be completed in 80 days.
Still too much?
How bout 20 credit hours?

The point is, we've already proven what can happen when we elect idiots, maybe we should error firmly on the other side.

Why would they bother? Websites not located in Illinois need not concern themselves with Illinois law.

Maybe one day we should propose the following amendment to the Illinois Constitution:

SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION ...
        (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least
21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
appointment a resident of the district which he is to
represent....

Addition:
No person may be elected or appointed to the Assembly unless that
person submits proof of attendance at and successfully completing no less
than 80 Credit hours (or equivalent) in a course of study covering
Constitutional Rights of citizens, the protections of freedoms of citizens
under the Constitution of Illinois and the Constitution of the United States.
Such course must be offered at all Illinois Colleges and Universities.

Slashdot is not hosted in Illinois.

EVEN if the servers are located in Illinois this law would be unconstitutional. Its unconstitutional even under the State Constitution.
It goes nowhere, and if it succeeds in getting passed, it gets bitchslapped by the courts.

Your definition of the word "Discounted" seems a little confused.

Burglarize is common in All of English speaking North America as well as India, so that puts you brits in the distinct minority.

Seems like all of these solutions are designed for people who don't wear eyeglasses.

According to the Vision Council of America, approximately 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% of them wear eyeglasses. Source