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Seeing the future is hard enough – but can you smell it?

If you are talking about green energy maybe you can.

We conducted our own scientific research on this very question yesterday in Washington, D.C., where we unveiled the world's first-ever Clean Energy Smell Test. If you thought the Coke and Pepsi taste tests were exciting, this one is really going to roll your socks up and down.

On one side, we have the energy future that visionaries like Van Jones – the nation's green-collar jobs czar – have been fighting for. On the other side, we have Big Oil's version of our future (can you hear the booos?).

One smells like sunshine, a gentle breeze through a windmill, mountain water flowing into a micro-hydro generator. The other smells like, well, hell.