"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Get busy" (or busier) may not happen as quickly as certain individuals
might like because obtaining more coal ***sometimes*** involves making a
mess like this:
http://www.ohvec.org/galleries/mountaintop_removal/007/

(Fishing related, since the process often wrecks water for miles around.)

This mysterious web site - www.mountaintopmining.com - (registrant: Mining
Internet Services, Inc.) tells a prettier story. Looks like it was
designed for 6th grade classrooms.




That's one of the problems. Whenever anybody thinks of coal, they
automatically think strip mining.
Strip mining is only one of several ways to recover coal, and there are
different types of coal, each with it's own properties that are suitable for
different purposes.

We have a whole civilization dependent on oil for survival. That won't
change overnight and real time political issues may cause severe problems in
the short term that unfortunately can only be addressed with military force.
It seems to me that a rational, well planned program to reduce dependency on
foreign oil by using resources controlled by us as a temporary "fix" while
new, high tech energy sources are developed makes sense.

Eisboch