"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

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:27:16 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


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

Damn, shades of Jimmy Carter, 30 years later.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/...ps_energy.html

"Eisboch" wrote
Whenever anybody thinks of coal, they automatically think strip mining.

And when some people think of surface mines, they see red, and tend to
exaggerate. I live in West Virginia, btw.