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Congress Considers Cow Power, Other Alternative Energy Technologies
(PhysOrg.com) — Legislators attending this year’s Congressional Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo and Forum in Washington, DC, last week were quick to point out the problems with fossil fuel — from cave-ins at coal mines to the oil spill in the Gulf.
Costly Nuclear Investments Or Affordable Green Energy for Saskatchewan

The Final Countdown (Widescreen Edition) $9.76 With a tantalizing “what-if?” scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. It’s really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 1980 release, but there’s still some life remaining in the movie’s basic premise: What if a modern-era Navy aircraft carrier–in this…

Southland Tales $2.96 Well, filmmakers should aim high, they say. And Richard Kelly shot the moon on his highly-anticipated follow-up to cult sensation Donnie Darko, which expands the apocalyptic mood of that movie and blows it up tenfold. Set during the election season of 2008, Southland Tales proposes a series of apparently linked events: the reappearance of a vanished movie star (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), now an a…

The Naked Gun 2 1/2 – The Smell of Fear $4.98 It’s more of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin, the bumbling cop from the old Police Squad! television series. This time, Drebin uncovers a plot–led by supervillain Robert Goulet!–to sabotage America’s energy policy. The jokes don’t stick as well as those of the first film (Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!), but there are some very funny slapstick moments, including several involving f…