RegGuheert said:
WetEV said:
And to be blunt, we have no realistic chance to burn it all due to greenhouse gas concerns.
Agreed. Unfortunately, the penalty for burning coal (or oil, for that matter) lags by so long that we are likely to burn more than we should. Perhaps we have already passed that point.
[tirade on]
Perhaps? In my biased opinion we passed the point of what we
should burn roughly 75 years ago. We passed the point of what we can compensate for burning about 20 years ago. Sadly, we are now past the point of being able to fully preserve our beautiful planet no matter how desperately our children and grandchildren try to undo our folly.
In my dreams, oil should cost $1000/barrel, and it should be illegal to mine coal anywhere in the world. In my far more probable nightmares, no future generation of human beings on this planet will ever have a life as easy or as pleasant as ours.
[tirade off]
Ray