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(CNN) -- Back in 2005, when he stopped studying third down tendencies long enough to work on a motivational self-help book, Nick Saban kept hammering on one phrase.

The book's title was "How Good Do You Want to Be? A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life."

The phrase the University of Alabama's football coach was stuck on was mercifully shorter.

"Eliminate the clutter."

The clutter is you. The clutter is me. The clutter is this story, another horn in the vast media brass section trumpeting a college football game taking on Homeric proportions.

"It's everything out there that can take away from your focus," said Saban's co-writer, Brian Curtis.

This week Saban -- called "the most powerful coach in sports" by Forbes magazine in 2008 -- is up to his furrowed brow in clutter. His No. 2 Crimson Tide plays No. 1 Louisiana State Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the most anticipated college football game in years. Both teams are undefeated, and it's the first ever SEC regular season game matching the country's two top teams.

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Saban, who just turned 60, is not exactly a willing contributor to the ruckus that surrounds big-time college football.

When his own players doused him with the traditional Gatorade victory shower after Alabama won the BCS Championship Game in January, 2010, he looked genuinely irked by the display.

Saban's no-nonsense nature -- he and a statue of him outside Alabama's football stadium are tied for number of memorable one-liners -- perfectly equips him for a moment like Saturday night.

"It's fun to play in games like this," Saban said this week. And then he broke out the wet blanket. "But I also think it's important to be able to stay focused on what you need to do to play well. You can't drain yourself emotionally because of all the things that are happening surrounding the game."

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The Saban method certainly has paid off. His overall college coaching record is 137-53-1, a .717 winning percentage. He has won as many national titles (two) as all-time major college wins leader Joe Paterno. But Saban is the only coach to win a BCS championship with two different programs.

It is a testament to both Saban's coaching genius and his tumbleweed past that his DNA is on both programs involved in Saturday's showdown. Here's how he got there:

The son of a West Virginia gas station owner, he began coaching as a grad assistant at alma mater Kent State in 1973. Over a lengthy career, he has been employed by nine different college programs, and three more NFL franchises.

Following four years as head coach at Michigan State, Saban was brought to Baton Rouge in 2000 after LSU had gone 7-15 the previous two seasons.

Within four years, Saban delivered a national title.

His professional travelogue didn't end there. Saban left to test himself as an NFL head coach with the Miami Dolphins in 2005. Two seasons there produced a 15-17 record, and then Saban was seduced by a once proud southern belle who had fallen into disrepute.

"I'm not going to be the Alabama coach," Saban infamously declared on December 21, 2006.

On January 4, 2007, he was introduced as the Crimson Tide's next coach.

He was apologizing for that one three years later in a Sporting News interview. Sort of. "I apologize for any professional mishandling that might have occurred," he said.

But there is a reason Alabama ponied up $4 million a year for Saban (university President Robert Witt makes a reported base of $490,000 a year). He is one rainmaker of a coach.

While perhaps not always so dedicated to the truth about his comings and goings, Saban is all in with building winning football programs. And in 2007 Alabama needed him badly.

With 13 national championships in the bank, and the legend of Bear Bryant growing dim, the Alabama football program of the early 2000s was a mess. One coach was tangled up in a sexual harassment charge and eventually got the program placed on NCAA probation. One hire never coached a game, fired after an off-season Florida strip-club romp became public. One abandoned ship after two seasons, informing his team he was leaving for Texas A&M via video conference. Another had the name (Mike Shula, son of Hall of Fame NFL coach Don Shula) but won few hearts with his 26-23 record.

Then came Saban, whose stern dictatorship cut through all the nonsense. He is 51-11 at 'Bama, with one national title and the hopes of another resting on Saturday.

His success did not sit well a couple states to the left. When Saban first left for the pros, LSU fans were mostly understanding. They even cheered him when he returned to Baton Rouge with the Dolphins in 2005 to take on the New Orleans Saints, who had been displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

But when he took over a conference rival, he was a direct threat to their team and the game changed.

On Saban's trip to Baton Rouge in 2008, he was greeted with the requisite effigy burning. The LSU student newspaper produced an editorial that proclaimed: "For the record, Nick, the Tiger faithful hate your guts."

"What people suddenly didn't seem to understand is that he didn't leave LSU for Alabama," said Glenn Guilbeau, who covers the Tigers for Gannett News Service. After ditching the Dolphins, "the only open jobs were Alabama, Louisville and Tulane. What was he supposed to do?"

Time has somewhat softened the Saban-is-Satan storyline when LSU and Alabama play now.

His connection to LSU was brought up only once in his press conference last Monday. In response, Saban sounded almost wistful.

"I really don't think a lot about that, but there are a lot of personal relationships we have with a lot of people because of the association we had with LSU," he said. "The older you get -- and everybody knows I'm getting old -- you kind of cherish those relationships and really respect and appreciate them. I'm happy to say a lot of those things don't get affected by this game and what happens in this game."

Are the halcyon days of Saban-hating gone?

After his clumsy departure from the Dolphins, Saban appeared as No. 9 on a Forbes top 10 list of most disliked people in sports. He has not made the last two editions of that list.

When he completes this season, his fifth, it will match his longest stay at any of his coaching posts. "I think there's a feeling that this is the right place for him and his wife at this stage of their lives," Curtis said.

The Saban family was out front in the recovery effort after a devastating tornado swept through Tuscaloosa in April, only reinforcing his Alabama identity.

Saban's Nick's Kids Foundation provided the $50,000 seed money to start Project Team Up, which coordinates aid for those who lost homes and loved ones to the storm. Saban, his wife Terry and his team have been out front throughout the recovery process, said Riz Shakir, Project Team Up's managing director.

"As you know, Nick is not one to be exuberant, but he shows he really cares through his actions," Shakir said. "When he cracks a little smile (doing the relief work), it's like you or me jumping for joy."

Maybe some will even begin taking him at his word that, "When I came here, I came here with the idea I'd be here for the rest of my career."

Saban may never be the warm and fuzzy good ol' boy kind of southern football coach. Because that is just the kind of clutter that has nothing to do with a final score, he's unlikely to spend much time courting favor.

At least he has settled into one place long enough now that those who wish to appreciate him know where to find him.

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(CNN) -- Some found it shocking when Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber granted convicted double-murderer Gary Haugen a reprieve Tuesday, setting aside Haugen's scheduled December 6 execution. Haugen, who killed another prisoner while serving a life sentence for a previous murder, had waived all appeals.

In a previous term as governor, Kitzhaber allowed two men to be executed, and he explained Tuesday that "I simply cannot participate once again in something that I believe to be morally wrong." A medical doctor with an active license, the governor also referred to his oath as a physician to "do no harm" as he announced Haugen's reprieve and a moratorium on executions for the remainder of his term in office. Notably, in issuing a reprieve (or delay) rather than commuting Haugen's sentence, Kitzhaber left open the possibility of Haugen's execution under a future governor.

As the news spread, many people reacted with anger. Kitzhaber has been called a coward and worse. This wave of anger, though, should not distract from two important truths: first, that Kitzhaber's actions are within, not without, the basic rules of our democracy; second, that Kitzhaber is a proxy for the thousands of people in this country who have had to live with doubt and even regret because they were thrust into the death penalty process while doing their civic duty as jurors, judges or lawyers.

In 1984, Oregon voters chose by referendum to reinstate the death penalty. The legislature formulated rules for capital punishment. Prosecutors elected, as they could, to pursue the death penalty against Haugen. A jury heard the evidence, and 12 Oregon citizens voted to have Haugen put to death.

The courts that heard Haugen's appeals (up to the point he dropped them) found the process fair. Then, after all of this, Kitzhaber chose not to finish this expensive and consuming project. Kitzhaber's choice is anti-democratic, it does frustrate the will of prosecutors, it must be confounding to those 12 jurors, and it constitutes a tremendous exercise of power based on just one person's sense of morality. It is also wholly within the genius of American government.

Oregon and other states have incorporated executive clemency into their systems of criminal law, drawing on the example laid out in the United States Constitution. The framers of the Constitution chose intentionally to give the executive that power, knowing full well that it would necessarily run contrary to popular will.

If you are angry with Kitzhaber for using that power, also direct your anger at Alexander Hamilton, who was a driving force behind the institution of executive clemency in the United States. Here is part of what Hamilton said about it in Federalist Paper 74: "Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. ... On these accounts, one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy of government, than a body of men."

The anti-democratic institution of clemency that is generating such anger is contrary to the voters of Oregon, yes. However, we should not forget that that same institution is ancient, principled and an integral part of the broad scheme of justice that wiser men than I have constructed.

A second buried truth is revealed within the tortured way in which Kitzhaber announced his decision. During a prior term as governor, in 1997, he had allowed two executions, and it seems clear that he was deeply troubled by his role in those killings. How could he not be? It is a heavy responsibility to participate in a deliberative process that identifies a citizen to be put to death by the state. However, Kitzhaber is just the exposed tip of an iceberg of human emotion. Beneath him are thousands of others who have been forced by the institution of capital punishment to live with their role in an intentional death.

Among that group are lawyers, witnesses and judges, but perhaps most sympathetic of all are the jurors. They are plucked from their daily lives by the government and suddenly thrust into the most important role of all -- they must vote, unanimously, after deliberation, on whether someone will live or die. If they vote for execution, they must file back into that hushed, tense room, look that person in the eye and say in the most public of ways that they have chosen him to die.

I have known some of those jurors. Years later, even if they were convinced they were right, they revealed deep and dark emotions related to what they had done. At best, that service was seen as a difficult but worthwhile sacrifice, and at worst as a moment they too often relived while filled with doubt.

Kitzhaber is right to say that the capital process is fatally flawed. It is unfair to some defendants, yes. But a system that tries many, condemns some to die and executes few is also cruel and unusual to those who work within the process. It is primarily inflicting pain on victims' relatives who wait in limbo, on jurors who relive those discussions, on prosecutors whose hearts are hardened while their efforts are frustrated and on the budgets and reputations of the states that choose to go on with it anyway.

Kitzhaber is not wrong to declare a moratorium, but he would be better advised to fully commute the sentences of those on death row and urge his fellow citizens to be done with the whole mess that this process has become.

That kind of bold action is not cowardice. It is leadership.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mark Osler.

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text: system

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text: condemns

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text: to

text: die

text: and

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text: unusual

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text: within

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text: process

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text: hearts

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text: efforts

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text: budgets

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text: states

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text: not

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text: advised

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text: sentences

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text: on

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text: row

text: and

text: urge

text: his

text: fellow

text: citizens

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text: done

text: with

text: the

text: whole

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text: this

text: process

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text: of

text: bold

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text: leadership

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

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text: solely

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text: Mark

text: Osler

question: What is part of Oregon law

answer: death penalty.

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question: what state is Kitzhaber governor of?

answer: Oregon

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(CNN)  -- The Public Utility Commission of Texas will review the case of a cancer patient fighting to keep her electricity on to power her oxygen machine, the commission told CNN on Wednesday.

Mable Randon, who has stage 4 cancer, was denied help paying for electricity, which she needs to power her oxygen tank.

CNN affiliate KHOU of Houston, Texas, said calls poured in from as far away as Connecticut after the station aired its story on Mable Randon, a stage 4 cancer patient who received a cutoff notice after she fell behind on her bills.

"I'm on a set income," she told KHOU. "My husband lost his job. He finds a little work every now and then, but it's hard."

She applied to CenterPoint Energy's Critical Care Program which helps maintain service for people who depend on electric-powered life support systems, but she was rejected.

"I'm fighting for my life, and I thought people at the power company would help me," said Randon, who uses a wheelchair. "I just thought they'd make some kind of exception for me."

Randon's power will stay on until the commission examines the facts in the case, said Terry Hadley, spokesman for the commission.

CenterPoint told Randon she failed to meet the criteria. Spokeswoman Alicia Dixon told KHOU that Randon could have bought a battery-powered oxygen machine. The critical care program has thousands of applicants, and only 300 of them have been accepted, she said.

"This program is a communication program, not a guarantee of uninterrupted power, even to customers who are on the list," she said.

Since the rejection, Randon said she is "up and down all night," partly because she is worried about whether the power will be on when she wakes up.

"They have no consideration for life," she said. "It's just like they don't care."

CenterPoint spokeswoman Leticia Lowe said the company does not send electric bills; it merely owns the wires and poles and is directed to disconnect power by retail electric providers.

Randon's electric company is Freedom Power, she said. CNN's attempts to contact Freedom Power were unsuccessful Wednesday. As of Tuesday, CenterPoint had not received a notice from Freedom Power to disconnect Randon's service, Lowe said.

Following the KHOU report, CenterPoint received calls from viewers, she said. But the company can do nothing since they don't bill Randon.

CNN's Divina Mims contributed to this report.

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question: Who gave Mable Randon a cutoff notice?

answer: The Public Utility Commission of Texas

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answer: CenterPoint Energy's Critical Care Program

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answer: The Public Utility Commission of Texas

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question: What illness does the woman have?

answer: stage 4 cancer,

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question: What did the Public Utility Commission of Texas say?

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- He is the international superstar responsible for breathing life into the iconic comic book hero Wolverine. Her movies have earned more than $2 billion worldwide, including the entire "X-Men" franchise.

Hugh Jackman emerges as Wolverine in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," which opened Friday.

Actor Hugh Jackman and film producer Lauren Shuler Donner recently sat down for a candid conversation about their new film, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

Specifically, the pair talked about the scene in which Jackman's character is transformed from a simple mutant with bony claws that periodically protrude from the back of his hands to an invincible mutant filled with an indestructible metal called adamantium.

This scene represents the ultimate birth of a comic legend as the character is transformed from Logan to Wolverine.  Watch the scene in which Wolverine is unleashed Â»

Hugh Jackman: I knew this was the birth of the character; this is where we see him in full flight. It's called in the comic book "berserker rage." It's not really in the English language, but it may be now! But, this idea that this complete animal [has been] unleashed, which is obviously the entire story -- this battle between the animal and human is something we all relate to.

Lauren Shuler Donner: There were many things he had to do in the tank, you know. One of them was he had to be lowered, and then the needles had to come towards him.

Now, most of those were CGI, so he had to look in certain places where the needles were. But, he couldn't hear [director] Gavin [Hood]. So they ... tried all kinds of sounds, speakers, everything. ...

They finally devised this toe method where, if Gavin pulled on Hugh's big toe, it meant the things are coming, the second toe is this, the last toe is rise up, very sophisticated. (laughter)

Jackman: I had in my head that I've got to be in much better shape -- not better shape, different shape, kind of ridiculous shape because I wanted it to be uncomfortable. I wanted it to feel like I felt when I saw Robert De Niro in "Cape Fear," that -- whoa, this guy is dangerous, he's powerful, he's dangerous, and he can snap at any point.

Donner: There's an iconic drawing of Wolverine coming out of the tank in the comics with the things popping out of him and his hair all over him in a rage, and we wanted to be that image. That's the image we wanted for the fans.

Jackman: I was a little frightened when I watched it, like, "Is that me?" [My wife] Deb was like, "Hugh, this is ridiculous. I don't even know who that is."

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(CNN) -- A Sudanese journalist could receive 40 lashings after she was caught wearing trousers.

Lubna al-Hussein was arrested with 18 other women this month for wearing indecent clothes.

A Sudanese court began hearing Lubna al-Hussein's case Wednesday. It will continue the hearing August 4.

At the time of her arrest, she was wearing pants, a blouse and a hijab, she said. Police accused her of wearing trousers that were too tight and alleged that her blouse was too transparent, al-Hussein said.

Al-Hussein, who works for a newspaper and the media department of the United Nations mission in Sudan, said she did nothing wrong. She has been released to her home in Khartoum.

The crime of wearing indecent attire has only one punishment under Sudanese law, a 40-stroke public flogging, according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.

"This case is the official retaliation against the reporter for her writings criticizing the Sudanese regime and extremists," the organization said in a statement.

Al-Hussein was arrested along with 18 others July 3 after Sudan's "discipline police" accused the women of wearing indecent clothes, al-Hussein said. Six were released, and 10 received the 40 lashes, she said.

Al-Hussein and two others fought the charges and hired attorneys, she said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke out against the decision Wednesday, saying he was "deeply concerned" and would take every effort to protect his staff member.

"The flogging is against the international human rights standards," he said. "I call on all parties to live up to their obligations under all relevant international instruments."

CNN's Umaro Djau, Talia Kayali and Tracy Doueiry contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- Two former presidents reflected on their greatest regrets in office Monday, each looking back to issues that continue to plague the nation years later.

Former presidents and political rivals Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush now share philanthropic efforts.

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton appeared together at a question-and-answer forum before the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Asked his biggest regret after leaving office, Bush said he now wonders whether he should have tried to get Saddam Hussein to leave office at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.

He told the gathering, "I've thought a lot about it, but at the end of Desert Storm, the question was should we have kind of kept going on that road to death and all this slaughter until Saddam Hussein showed up and laid his sword on the table, surrendered. And the common wisdom was he wouldn't do that."

But he said a conversation with an FBI agent who interrogated Saddam after he was captured has made him reconsider.

Bush recalled their talk, "I said, 'What if we just say he has to come to surrender, would he have done it?' And this guy said, 'I'm absolutely convinced he would have.' My experts tell me he wouldn't have."

Bush said, "We ended it the way we said we would" as a military success, but noted a cleaner ending "would have been perfect."

He added, "If we had tried to get Saddam Hussein to come and literally surrender and put his sword on the table, I think it might have been avoided some of the problems that we did have in the future from him."

On a day that President Barack Obama dispatched George Mitchell to the Middle East as the latest U.S. envoy, Clinton discussed the failure to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

"My No. 1 regret is that I was not able to persuade Yasser Arafat to accept the peace plan I offered at the end of my presidency that the Israelis accepted.

"If he had done that ... we had had seven years of progress toward peace. We had one year in 1998, the only year in the history of Israel where not a single soul was killed in a terrorist act. The Palestinians had more control over West Bank then than they do today," Clinton said. "And if he had taken that deal, we would have a Palestinian state and we would have had, I think now, normal peaceful relations with Israel and all of its Arab neighbors."

Clinton said a deal would have helped the U.S. handle other issues in the region, saying, "We'd be much better positioned to deal with the problem of Iran, and we would have taken away about half the arguments of terrorists around the world by giving the Palestinians their state and creating a cooperative, positive interdependence in the Middle East, not a negative one. And so, I think that would have done more good to save more lives and help more people, and I wish I had been able to do that. "

Clinton also said he regretted not doing more to "stop the Rwandan genocide," and succeeding on a new health care plan.

He said "presidents should share freely ... the mistakes they made" with historians, because it teaches lessons. He said he shared problems during the lunch with Obama and the four living presidents, saying, "You want each new president to make new mistakes, not the same ones."

Clinton added, "all of us know if you make enough decisions, you're going to make a few of them aren't right."

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question: What does Bush regret?

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question: What did Bush  wonder about?

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question: What did Clinton say presidents should do?

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientists in the United States are developing a "synthetic tree" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.

A conceptual design of how the "synthetic tree" might look should they ever reach the stage of production.

As the wind blows though plastic "leaves," the carbon is trapped in a chamber, compressed and stored as liquid carbon dioxide.

The technology is similar to that used to capture carbon from flue stacks at coal-fired power plants, but the difference is that the "synthetic tree" can catch carbon anytime, anywhere.

"Half of your emissions come from small, distributed sources where collection at the site is either impossible or impractical," said Professor Klaus Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.

"We aim for applications like gasoline in cars or jet fuel in airplanes. We are going after CO2 that otherwise is nearly impossible to collect," he told CNN.

While the idea of carbon-catchers may sound far-fetched, an early model has been built and Lackner is in the process of writing a proposal for consideration by the U.S. Department of Energy.

He personally explained the concept in a 45-minute meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu last month at a three-day symposium on climate change in London.

"He was there and I was there and he showed interest," Lackner told CNN. "That's exciting, but I don't particularly want to discuss this in a public forum because I think this gives me a little bit of an opportunity to tailor my proposals to the Department of Energy in a way that makes them more palatable."

Lackner started working on the concept of an ambient carbon catcher in 1998. "I argued back then and I still argue that the reason this can be done, from a theoretical point of view, is that the CO2 in the air is actually surprisingly concentrated, therefore the device you need to collect CO2 is quite small."

The "synthetic tree" looks more like a public convenience block than a hi-tech method of reducing carbon emissions, but Lackner told CNN it is highly efficient for its size when compared, for example, to a modern power-generating wind turbine.

"If you give me one of those big windmills which have those big areas through which the rotor moves -- how much CO2 can I avoid? And if I had an equally sized CO2 collector -- how much CO2 can I collect? It turns out the collector is several hundred times better than the windmill."

Is the "synthetic tree" an interesting alternative, or a  scientific flight of fancy that's unlikely to happen? Sound Off below.

Lackner told CNN that initial concerns over the cost of the technology were focused on the "front-end" carbon collector, including the sorbent used to catch the carbon dioxide in the air.

But after years of research, Lackner told CNN he and his colleagues have developed a sorbent that is "close to the ideal," in that it uses a relatively small amount of energy to release the CO2 and is not prohibitively expensive.

"By the time we make liquid CO2 we have spent approximately 50 kilojoules [of electricity] per mole of CO2." Compare that, Lackner said, to the average power plant in the U.S. which produces one mole of CO2 with every 230 kilojoules of electricity.

"In other words, if we simply plugged our device in to the power grid to satisfy its energy needs, for every roughly 1000 kilograms [of carbon dioxide] we collected we would re-emit 200, so 800 we can chalk up as having been successful," he said.

Lackner told CNN the biggest cost was at the "back-end" of the collector, primarily the technology used to release the CO2 from the sorbent.

He said for that reason, on a cost-basis, the "synthetic tree" could not compete with modern coal-fired power plants that are designed to release fewer carbon emissions than their older predecessors. But he said when compared to the cost of retro-fitting an existing coal plant, the "synthetic tree" becomes more viable.

"The bottom line is we have in this way the ability to deal with the problem at a cost which is somewhat higher than on a coal-fired power plant retro-fit, but not much higher."

Besides, he said, the technology is not being developed as an alternative to the carbon capture and storage methods currently being tested for large-scale use on coal-fired power stations. He's targeting carbon that's already in the air.

The concept of the "synethic tree" has caught the imagination of one of the first scientists to warn the world about global warming, Lackner's colleague at Columbia University, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Professor Wally Broecker.

"I'm extremely excited about this. I think this is something that the world's going to have to have, unfortunately," Broecker told CNN from Madrid where he received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his work on the issue of climate change.

Broecker told CNN most people still don't recognize the magnitude of the task the world faces in reducing global carbon emissions, and it was likely that one day urgent action would need to be taken, above and beyond the current measures being discussed.

"We're probably not going to stop CO2 rising until it's double what it was near-1800 and maybe even more than that," he said. "I think we will find that the planet is too warm, ice is melting too fast... and we'll want to bring the CO2 back down again. The only way we can do that on a short timescale would be to pull it back out of the atmosphere."

Broecker told CNN the units could stand in the middle of Australia, for example, and their presence wouldn't significantly disrupt the atmospheric distribution.

"Each unit would take out a ton of CO2 a day -- which would be the amount of CO2 produced by 20 average automobiles in the U.S.A. And the cost of each unit would be about the cost of a Toyota. So that would mean if you added a five percent surcharge on automobile purchases that money could go to building units to remove the CO2 those vehicles are going to create."

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text: the

text: United

text: States

text: are

text: developing

text: a

text: synthetic

text: tree

text: capable

text: of

text: collecting

text: carbon

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text: times

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text: the

text: real

text: thing

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text: design

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text: tree

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text: stage

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text: wind

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text: technology

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text: difference

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text: synthetic

text: tree

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text: time

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text: average

text: power

text: plant

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text: U.S.

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text: device

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text: power

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text: energy

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text: we

text: can

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text: biggest

text: cost

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text: back

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text: collector

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text: technology

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text: to

text: release

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text: sorbent

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text: reason

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text: cost

text: basis

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text: synthetic

text: tree

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text: not

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text: with

text: modern

text: coal

text: fired

text: power

text: plants

text: that

text: are

text: designed

text: to

text: release

text: fewer

text: carbon

text: emissions

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text: older

text: predecessors

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text: said

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text: the

text: cost

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text: fitting

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text: coal

text: plant

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text: synthetic

text: tree

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text: viable

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text: have

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text: this

text: way

text: the

text: ability

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: the

text: problem

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text: a

text: cost

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text: is

text: somewhat

text: higher

text: than

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text: a

text: coal

text: fired

text: power

text: plant

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text: fit

text: but

text: not

text: much

text: higher

text: Besides

text: he

text: said

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text: technology

text: is

text: not

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text: developed

text: as

text: an

text: alternative

text: to

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text: carbon

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text: and

text: storage

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text: currently

text: being

text: tested

text: for

text: large

text: scale

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text: on

text: coal

text: fired

text: power

text: stations

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text: 's

text: targeting

text: carbon

text: that

text: 's

text: already

text: in

text: the

text: air

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text: concept

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text: the

text: synethic

text: tree

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text: caught

text: the

text: imagination

text: of

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: first

text: scientists

text: to

text: warn

text: the

text: world

text: about

text: global

text: warming

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text: 's

text: colleague

text: at

text: Columbia

text: University

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text: Professor

text: of

text: Earth

text: and

text: Environmental

text: Sciences

text: Professor

text: Wally

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text: extremely

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text: think

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text: is

text: something

text: that

text: the

text: world

text: 's

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question: What does the tree do?

answer: collecting carbon

text: collecting carbon

question: What would the "Synthetic tree" capture?

answer: carbon

text: carbon

question: What would happen to the trapped carbon?

answer: in a chamber, compressed and stored as liquid

text: in a chamber, compressed and stored as liquid

question: what did Broecker say?

answer: "I'm extremely excited about this. I think this is something that the world's going to have to have, unfortunately,"

text: "I'm extremely excited about this. I think this is something that the world's going to have to have, unfortunately,"

question: What university is working on this technology?

answer: Columbia

text: Columbia

question: Who is developing the technology?

answer: Scientists in the United States

text: Scientists in the United States