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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I think for the first time, l have to disagree with what has been said concerning the mining industry and the future.
We have under our feet, as they say, We have energy that is home produced, and the workforce that can make it work, we have the science that can produce a coal that can overtake all this wind crap that ruins our landscapes, What we have to look at is, we import coal, which must cost a bundle, we have mines that work at the moment and it profitable.
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We have energy under our feet, and it is, undoubtedly, just about the most environmentally disastrous energy we could choose. The sulphur, I admit, we can nowadays deal with - only after decades of pouring acid rain on Scandinavia, mind you - but the carbon, we cannot. The technology to remove millions of tonnes of carbon from coal burned on a commercial scale
simply does not exist.
As for wind power ruining our landscapes ... I invite you to take a trip up the valleys in South Wales if you want to see what coal mining does to landscapes. Or anywhere there used to be large-scale mining, for that matter. Massive artificial mountains of slag, I think we can do without.