elidupree/Lasercake — Issue #1: Games are usually played using energy produced by coal-fired power plants.
Author: elidupree
Created: 2011-12-30 23:17:29+00:00
State: open

Unlike in certain light-hearted video games, real life coal mining, which provides much of the world's electricity, is an extremely dirty business, at every stage from mining (which causes lung problems, radiation poisoning, and ecological devastation) to "clean coal" power plants (which still pollute many times more than truly clean brethren, such as wind and solar plants).

These problems are epic in scope, but Lasercake has a modest goal of educating users about the virtues of clean energy.

Useful links:

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/morecoalwaste

http://goodcleantech.pcmag.com/pollution/280666-how-clean-is-clean-coal