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Along the shores of the sleepy Ohio River, deep in West Virginia's "megawatt valley," the twin smokestacks of American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal plant rise 1,000 feet, a shade higher than the Eiffel Tower. Here coal is burned to heat water to make steam that drives the giant turbines that make the power - a grossly inefficient process that has barely changed since the days of Edison. Read The Full Story