i had someone argue with me that the earth will run out of coal if we do not end its use. he said it would take an extinction event to create more coal. i asked how much coal is still available and he did not know. i asked how much coal we use and he did not know. i asked him how he then could say we are going to run out of coal?
he said because it is finite and we are not making more.
ugh
Have you ever gone to rural Ireland. You smell the peat for miles. Its grass that grows every year, covering every inch of land. Then it dies, every year. New grass grows over old to the point where dead grass lies thickly over thousands of layers of grass that has died before. And the Irish literally cut logs of dead grass called peat. They bring it in to their fire places and heat their homes with it. In the North Sea there was land that had been above water a mere 5000 years ago. The land between England and Norway has been named Doggerland. Look it up. It too had thousands of layers of grass. And we harvest that grassland as well when we drill North Sea oil. Peat, Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas are all the same thing, dead grass. And its renewable. Every year we flare off excess Natural Gas from oil wells and land fills. There is a lot of carbon locked with oxygen and hydrogen. A never ending supply. And as we burn it, setting the elements free, they are adsorbed even more readily by the increasing plant life. And more carbon based fuels will be made.
The ChiComs are building hundreds of coal fired electric generating plants. The seem to think there will be plenty of coal to feed them. I’ve read that they are trying to add a lot of electric cars powered by coal generating plants to reduce dependence on foreign oil.