Coal. America has it. No Money... but lots of Coal. Use it?
Is it OK to Burn Coal? Should we increase our reliance on Coal? The most abundant domestic energy resource in America? The United States is Broke. We are, face it. Why send more dollars overseas to buy foreign oil? Our environment is precious. But the state of our technology requires us to be heavy energy consumers. While we promote the development of very expensive alternative energy sources, what will we do to sustain the current cost of energy? Oil below $40.00 a barrel is just a temporary thing. The average price of oil over the last 2 years has jumped from 60 to 90 dollars a barrel. We forget the gas madness of this past summer. At what point do we realize that we cannot afford to ignore one of our richest resources? Coal. We have it. Why not use it? Coal for electric cars. Homes. everything..... Is there a way to make coal an acceptable energy source?
Economics - 5 Answers
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Unfortunately, burning coal is one of the most harmful fuels out there. Not only does it produce harmful gases, but it also produces a lot of smoke, damaging property. It is incredibly dirty. Consider London in the nineteenth century, how filthy everyone was from using coal (and only coal) to heat their homes.
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communists have taken over the EnvironMENTAL movement, and also have infiltrated the judicial system. The will of the people is always suppressed by a handful of communists and a handful of communist judges.
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We are making use of coal in the producing of electricity. In 2007. 48.6 percent of our electricity was generated from coal. Nuclear energy produced 19.4 percent. Natural gas supplied 21.5 percent. Hydro power provided 5.8 percent .There is technology that remove many of the harmful pollutants from burning coal but not CO2, but that is also true for all fossil fuels including oil. To used to coal(electricity) to power cars we need to improve battery technology, not coal technology. The cheapest way to reduce CO2 emissions is conservation, and if that is not sufficient we will have to use nuclear power plants. Removing CO2 emission from burning coal is not now feasibly and it will be decades before we can do it commercially, if ever.
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Coal works just fine. But I would prefer to build nuclear plants and take America all electric. Nuclear has several advantages over coal and we should leave the coal for the next civilization, since ours may well collapse back into the stone age.
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Hate to tell you but there is nothing wrong with sending money overeas to buy foreign oil. Each country needs to produce what it is good at. The world is better that way. China makes cheaper cars. So let them. The US can concentrate on computers and aeroplanes. And they will be better off. The US isn't broke. It is far, far from it.
