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Probably too little, too late. Dannymac Send a noteboard - 21/02/2013 04:09:45 PM
Over January I took a class where we toured Coal Country in Kentucky, and the Engineer at the mine we visited (the class was mostly cultural, not environmental or industrial) told us that the dirty secret of Coal Mining is that they actually are not being killed by government regulations, but rather by competition. That particular mine had about 20 years of coal left at current output, but he would be surprised if they were still open in 3, because coal was being trounced thoroughly by Natural Gas with existing technology.

If this works then great, because unless we make some big breakthroughs eventually we will need to go back to our coal reserves... but I don't seeing this saving the coal industry as it exists now.
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