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How Can We Possibly Be Short Of Coal?
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FGS we live on an Island largely made of it, yet we are importing it on diesel powered ships? How is that helping climate change? Stop this net zero rowlocks and open some mines again. Now is the time.
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"Wasn’t it the Tory Tyrant Margaret Thatcher who closed all the mines ?”
Not quite. 626 had been closed between 1945 and the time she came to power. 354 had been closed under Labour governments and 272 under the Conservatives. Mrs Thatcher closed a further 115.
“if we had 189 billion tonnes in coal reserves then we would have about 50 billion more than china and almost as much as the USA lol. i find that a little hard to believe.”
From “euracoal”:
“The UK has identified hard coal resources of 3, 560 million (3.56bn) tonnes although total resources could be as large as 187 billion tonnes.”
The figures you need to compare are those of “proven coal reserves”. The UK has 3.56bn tonnes, China has 149bn tonnes.
The UK has plenty of coal for its meagre needs. Yes, it will run out eventually, but not before a more measured and properly thought out strategy is planned and enacted to see its use end.
What the country doesn’t have is politicians who think clearly. If it did, it would dig it up and use it. Instead it leaves it in the ground, preferring instead to pay over the odds for it and see that payment leave the economy, then ship it halfway round the world in diesel powered ships. This, according to our increasingly eccentric Energy Secretary, “sends a message to the world” on coal.
Meanwhile, China burns more coal than the rest of the world put together and has, either in planning or under construction, coal fired power stations which will see its grid capacity increase by ten times the UK’s total capacity from all sources (none of it from coal).
The message obviously hasn’t reached Beijing yet.
It may also be worth noting that smelting plants need a lot of electricity to operate 24/7. At night when the sun is asleep and the wind is not blowing, all day when it is cloudy, during snowstorms bad weather, at times of domestic peak consumption and a back up supply. Guess which fuel can guarantee that without carting it around the World. Right again. Coal.
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