Coal is dirty as shit. Not only from mining it, but since it contains trace amounts of thorium and uranium, those get released into the air from burning it. Unless you’re going to refine the coal into a clean fuel, or make some giant water bong style filters for the smoke stacks, coal is worse than nuclear and also a finite resource. Once coal is all gone it’s gone, no more gets made unless we wipe out the world and it starts over from scratch. In which case we’re still like 300-450 million years away from having new coal.
Indeed we can make charcoal but charcoal isn’t coal. Switching to a wood based heat system IS doable, with proper forest management and logging, but coal itself it finite. It was generated millions of years ago before bacteria that breaks down and rots the tree down evolved. Trees died and fell and got compacted and nothing broke them down and the pressure and maybe some heat(I wasn’t there at the time, lol) changed the ancient cellulose strands from the wood we know and love into coal.
I’d much rather see nuclear be used in the near future and save coal for later on. Maybe we invent a process that makes it a super battery, maybe we find a combination that results in a super fuel. We won’t be able to do that if we simply burn it all when there’s better options.
Yes. However charcoal is almost as good, better in some regards, better extraction, except needs far more to be efficient. It is renewable not finite. No, we aren't running out of coal. Not yet in any event.
Nuclear isn't effective when it comes to furnaces. Redundant in fact. Smelting, concrete, metals, steel, glass. Gas is by far and wide a better means. However it is also costly. Electricity requires far more parts, far more power. Making furnace, like turning on kettle, huge drain.
Power generation yes nuclear is without equals, it delivers far more output effectively.
But it's a narrative. A narrative of using non carbon based power sources. Absurdly in many regards. We are on a carbon planet and it has recycled that fuel already. Humans just charge more for their bullshit. Stop man making fire by charging them for electricity. Smells like a bigger con. Look at the price. They still burn it anyway. But the emissions, yes more of them shit everywhere. They aren't clean if they're invasive, computer don't grow on trees.
I wasn’t trying to say we’re running out of coal anytime soon. Merely that it, unlike oil, is finite and once it’s gone it’s gone. I’d hate for future generations to be starved of a potential super resource because we simply burned it instead of using better alternatives.
Sure, nuclear requires concrete and steel and expensive procedures to begin and continue operation but we get so much out of it it’s worth it. Plus some good blue collar jobs.
Coal is dirty as shit. Not only from mining it, but since it contains trace amounts of thorium and uranium, those get released into the air from burning it. Unless you’re going to refine the coal into a clean fuel, or make some giant water bong style filters for the smoke stacks, coal is worse than nuclear and also a finite resource. Once coal is all gone it’s gone, no more gets made unless we wipe out the world and it starts over from scratch. In which case we’re still like 300-450 million years away from having new coal.
Pretty sure you can make charcoal. Burning wood has almost the same effect. It however needs more wood for that efficiency.
Indeed we can make charcoal but charcoal isn’t coal. Switching to a wood based heat system IS doable, with proper forest management and logging, but coal itself it finite. It was generated millions of years ago before bacteria that breaks down and rots the tree down evolved. Trees died and fell and got compacted and nothing broke them down and the pressure and maybe some heat(I wasn’t there at the time, lol) changed the ancient cellulose strands from the wood we know and love into coal. I’d much rather see nuclear be used in the near future and save coal for later on. Maybe we invent a process that makes it a super battery, maybe we find a combination that results in a super fuel. We won’t be able to do that if we simply burn it all when there’s better options.
Yes. However charcoal is almost as good, better in some regards, better extraction, except needs far more to be efficient. It is renewable not finite. No, we aren't running out of coal. Not yet in any event.
Nuclear isn't effective when it comes to furnaces. Redundant in fact. Smelting, concrete, metals, steel, glass. Gas is by far and wide a better means. However it is also costly. Electricity requires far more parts, far more power. Making furnace, like turning on kettle, huge drain.
Power generation yes nuclear is without equals, it delivers far more output effectively.
But it's a narrative. A narrative of using non carbon based power sources. Absurdly in many regards. We are on a carbon planet and it has recycled that fuel already. Humans just charge more for their bullshit. Stop man making fire by charging them for electricity. Smells like a bigger con. Look at the price. They still burn it anyway. But the emissions, yes more of them shit everywhere. They aren't clean if they're invasive, computer don't grow on trees.
I wasn’t trying to say we’re running out of coal anytime soon. Merely that it, unlike oil, is finite and once it’s gone it’s gone. I’d hate for future generations to be starved of a potential super resource because we simply burned it instead of using better alternatives. Sure, nuclear requires concrete and steel and expensive procedures to begin and continue operation but we get so much out of it it’s worth it. Plus some good blue collar jobs.