Coal is one of the world's fastest growing energy sources. It fuels almost 40% of electricity worldwide, with even higher percentages in several countries. However, coal is also the most unclean energy source in the world. Upon burning, coal releases a number of problem pollutants such as mercury, sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. These pollutants are not only harmful to breathe in, but are also avid greenhouse gases and contribute significantly to global warming.
Wow. Everyone that supports coal is an idiot. Fantastic message to convey. Being an elitist is the best way to spread your message. I'm sure that because the creators of this video could make a fairly well produced video they know what they're talking about. Fuck statistics or other scientific/logistical observations, unnecessary. We just need to hammer people with sarcastic, condescending nonsense to get our point across. Do some fucking research and don't rely on the Sierra Club for info.
Some people are dumb,I'm in middle school and I know coal doesn't grow in the ground,money is not the most important thing in the world,and energy doesn't come from a wall,coal is not cheap or clean!
I'm a coal miner with 36 years underground, and for all those 36 years, i've heard many comments about shutting down the coal industry and using another energy source. If there was another energy source that could replace coal, it would already be in use,and the mining industry would have already been shut down. Face it, we're here to stay and all the crying and bitching is in vain. Long live coal and the American coal miner.
Problem is wind and solar are so expensive and intermittent that just to make it somehow economically feasible, the government has to pump millions in subsidies. The "most green" baseload power source is Nuclear, and it has its drawbacks. The green fad NEVER focuses on the negatives of Wind and Solar, just that they are clean and somehow will solve the worlds problems.
The more sensible choice is install scrubbers on plants without them. But sensibility is not what green peps want.
As a man who has worked in the coal industry for many years, I can say that YES the burning of coal can have its drawbacks. But, I can say that technology has made some major improvements on the environmental impact of it. Coal is being converted to fuel pellets which greatly reduce the amount of CO2 released during the burning. I worked in a coal lab for 4 years and have been working underground as a coal miner for 2 years.
Maybe, if we all turned off our computers, stopped wasting time on youtube and actually did something proactive, rather then making inane comments on parodies, we'd need to burn less coal?
Iphone=7 watts per battery charge=1400mAh battery that chrages using 5 volts. Watts = Volts x Current Watts = 5V x 1.4Ah = 7 WattHours 1 watt =0.001 kilowatts so 7watts=.007kw*8,760 hours in a year=61.32kwh. 40 percent of thermal energy in coal is converted to electricity. So the electricity generated per ton of coal is 0.4 x 6150 kWh or 2460 kWh/ton. So 62.32kwh/2460kwh/ton=.02534tons*2240 pounds=56.75lbs/year charged once a day x 26.378 million iphones in the world = 1496.9515 million lbs/year
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America should at least invest into solar power, like the chinese do. They have the biggest solar industry in the world. America has the same potential.
Coal Kills: This video is Bull Shit. There is no such thing as clean coal. Coal causes sickness, disease, and death throughout its lifecycle. There are over 200 deadly toxic chemicals in coal. They include arsenic, lead, cyanide, mercury, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and more. Coal is 300 times more deadly than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Coal waste is reponsible for the death of prehaps millions of American and more Chinese. Most superfund sites contain coal waste. Stop lying
@phenylketonuric1 I know it's a parody, I just did not find it funny because coal ash waste is quite serious. Many victims of coal ash waste which includes me fail to see the humor in our sickness and death of our loved ones. But any message against coal is a good message I suppose.
Coal was our past and will be our future when naive environmentalists step away from their destructive agenda. Coal isn't clean but if the government gave half the money to those seeking cleaner ways to use coal as they give to wasteful "green" causes we might actually find a cleaner way to use coal.
Let's paint everyone who is associated with coal as uneducated. Nifty idea, throwing some black makeup on the guy's face and having him cough. There are more stringent policies in place for EVERY mine in the US than there are in nearly every other industry. There are risks associated with it, just as there are risks associated with driving a car to work or flying on an airplane for a business trip. Implying that coal miners are neglected/uneducated is profiling and nothing more than propaganda.
Conventional coal emits sulfur, nitrogen, Co2, and soot
Clean coal eliminates all except Co2
Methane gas (CH4) from underwater seabeds all over the world contains over 20 times the potency and during a volcanic eruption mega tons of sulfur, So2, CO2, CO, HF and hydrogen are emitted
Most of these gases are considered green house gas responsible global warming
Therefore we should..[Post your deductive reasoning here]
Solar power will totally provide all of our energy needs! And Nastradamus was right about 9/11, the moon landing never happened, and Kennedy was assassinated by our own government.
fact is that coal is not even cheap; when you add up the externalized costs - Report shows an additional 8 cents per kwh for health, environment, etc. An invisible tax that we all pay
As a resident of Southern West Virginia, I can testify to the wreck and ruin caused by greedy mining companies, choosing profit over people. Here in Lincoln County, the Hobet mine is poisoning our streams and rivers with selenium. It's causing birth defects and sickness in my neighbors and we're plumb fed up with it.
Our state government rolls over like a little puppy when the coal barons say 'boo' and there's zero accountability.
clean my ass. Dont you read the history books? Shit, I was gonna say industrial revolution, but that was steam power. But coal is not clean. It is toxic to breathe. Is water toxic to breathe?
Wind energy. If we took 1 tillion dollars the cost of the wars in you know where. 1 trillion/4 million (estimated cost of scale for a commercial one wind turbine) would net 25 billion wind turbines. One wind turbine can generate 2.5MWh electricity. 2.5MWh can power 350 homes in a northern cold state. 25 billion X 250 homes? I think that pretty much covers the US needs for power. Just having fun here, don't shoot the messenger. I prefer nuclear over coal power plants anyday.
Don't you see the humor in my post and don't you see the reality of waste in our world? 25 billion wind generators, of course is not reality! There is only 2.3 billion acres in the united states from sea to sea and one acre will support one generator. Would anyone be ok with 50, one for each state, and the power created will have to be diverted to a homeless shelters at no charge.
The rest of the trillion dollars would have to go to fix our broken educational system instead, sound better?
Funny. The Chinese are building two coal plants per month. They own our debt. When they take over they will respect your flower power wind power cumbaya peace love thing.
Haha, we were shown this video today in my AP Government and Politics class. My opinions lie in the centrist category, and I think this vid is a good way to make fun of the conservatives when it comes to energy
"the future is later" so you want your kids to have to try to make alternative forms of power affordable? you want your kids to be around when we run out of non-renewable fule sorce...
I hope those people are not serious. Coal is a cheap, dirty, evil source of power that pollutes our nation. Coal is not clean at all, and it actually creates about 10% of our pollution.
Uhh huh. And so you're agreeing with people who say "My family's money is the most important thing in the world", "Wind power is crazy-looking" "Coal grows in the ground or something", or "I love my job!"(wiping his forehead and sweating hardly). No. Even "The future is later". You're crazy.
Face it we are all going to be dead in 40-50 or even 70 years. I wont care because i will be dead. Also it is funny how people think they can make a global impact. Man is responsible for ~10% of the worlds pollutants. A coal power plant is much more efficient than any car on the road. It is viable and dirt cheep!!! Do you have electricity? Chances are it is coal powered. Cheep clean and affordable.
More nonsensical rantings. Coal plants more efficient than an internal combustion engine? Where are you getting this drivel? Viable? Dirt Cheap? Do you know anything?
10% of world's pollutants? What does that even mean? Where are your sources? You don't care because you'll be dead? That's the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard.
From enviropedia... Natural sources of sulphur dioxide include release from volcanoes, biological decay and forest fires. Actual amounts released from natural sources in the world are difficult to quantify. In 1983 the United Nations Environment Programme estimated a figure of between 80 million and 288 million tonnes of sulphur oxides per year (compared to around 69 million tonnes from human sources world-wide). The list goes on. Humans count for very little pollution on a global scale.
I don't know where you got this or what the source info is but this "volcano" argument is log debunked. Check this video out for more:
watch?v=WPA-8A4zf2c
You can also check out the USGS website for more info, simply google:
"volcanic gases usgs"
Volcano SO2 emissions are less than anthropogenic ones. What's more, anthropogenic SO2 emissions are much closer to large cities, etc. and this is the major source of smog and acid-rain formation.
I am sorry that these people that hate coal so much will never really know anything about where it comes from, or the people that support their families with the mining of it.
I'm glad to know that the destruction of inumerable species, not to mention human health, keeps a few families with food on their tables. Love the video. Very clever.
Name one of the species please and name one person whos health has suffered "destruction" please, If you would show how you had the power disconnected from your house I would start to think you actually believe any of the dribble that flows out of you.
I actually know a lot about where it comes from. And it doesn't support many families at all.
Did you know that the wind industry now employs more people in the united states than coal does? And wind is only at about 1/50th the capacity of coal generation right now... imagine how many people we could put to work if we replaced coal with wind and solar!
Your statement right there is exactly why wind is not a viable and more important affordable source of energy. With your statistics it sounds like we can put the whole state of California to work on wind power and our energy demands would still not be meet.
Wind power is cheaper than nuclear power, and if the externalized costs of coal were accounted for (and the coal companies made responsible for them) then coal would be, by far, the most expensive form of power generation, even more than nuclear.
Putting "all of California" to work through wind power is a ridiculous statement. If you said that in seriousness then I wonder about your mental stability. I further wonder at your insinuation that putting people to work is a bad thing.
Let me be clear. The statement that "Coal is cheep (sic), clean and viable" is borderline psychotic. It has never been, and never will be, any of those. Coal kills. Coal is exploitative. It is time for us to start being responsible for our actions.
"If we use fuel to generate our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly.
This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations."
Some people have idealistic views but in all reality the most important thing is that power is reliable and affordable. That statement my family money is more true than you might want to admit.
How did Tesla think we should generate power? There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. We are all confined to the laws of physics. Even the great Tesla. I think there is a reason he died as a pauper.
"the most important thing is that power is reliable and affordable"
More important than the ability of this planet to sustain the current biosphere? You're insane.
You obviously know nothing about these issues or Tesla. Where did you get "perpetual motion machine?" No one brought that up. Take your lunatic ravings to some other message board. I'm tired of nutjobs like you.
Sorry about my Tesla statement. For something to work it needs to be viable. Tesla from what I read was idealistic. I assume you are as well. He died a very poor man. For something to work it has to be economically viable. Look at Tesla's peers Westinghouse and Edison. I agree with you on so many of your points but our society has not evolved enough. We embrace a free enterprise marketplace where cheapest is the best. I am all for green power. I just don't want to pay more for it.
Every single thing Tesla ever did was viable. He held more patents than just about anyone else in history. He invented florescent lighting and A/C power. How dare you label him an "idealist" and then use that to brush aside whatever he'd say. Not only is it Ad Hominem it is offensive.
He died a pauper because he gave his patents away. He was not obsessed, as you obviously are, with material possession and wealth. His goal and dream was the advancement of science for the betterment of mankind.
Looking only at the "price" of energy is not looking at its true cost. Coal, etc. have massive and extensive externalized costs that those companies are not held responsible for. If they were held accountable then those forms of energy would be by far the most expensive. Externalized costs include things like degradation to public health and the environment, etc. Just because you don't pay those costs on your electric bill doesn't mean they aren't being paid, if not by you then by someone else.
What about the families that live near the shore? You know, the ones who will likely lose ground as ocean levels rise? Every step in progress has always had Luddites whom are hurt by it. For example: the original Luddites. The textile industry had started going mechanical, and people were losing their jobs by the boatload, so they started destroying the machines. Unfortunately, that happens with progress. But progress must be made.
Coal ain't the future, it's the past. You have to realize that coal is everything but green. Coal as an alternative source of power would bring you guys back in time, sorry
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You did a big favor to thousands and thousands of firewood peddlers!!! now more and more homeowners agree with your clean coal criticism and start loading their fireplaces and woodstoves with firewood on a daiily basis!! The air is getting dirtier than EVER! We are losing the war on air pollution all over again!! Thank you so much for your misinformation!! You are a wonderful guy!
No offense, but your post makes no sense. Coal fired power plants have zero connection to people burning wood if they happen to have a wood stove or a fire place. And coal pollutes the environment when it is mined, when it's burned and by the toxic slurry or ash produced from burning. Coal's never a clean fuel so the video is not misinformation, the misunderstanding however seems to be yours.
There is much more firewood on sale ..in grocery, hardware, Macy's, you name it than ever before. People are thinking that by switching to firewood we will solve the global climate change. Coal is far cleaner than firewood Your fireplace or stove lacks pollution controls EPA has yet to weigh heavily on firewood You simply cannot ignore firewood You are not solving any climate issues by any means at all I am trying to remind people who are against coal to look at firewood , too...
People seems to think that by cutting coal down we will have more room in our air to pollute with firewood. Firewood is much closer to you than the coal fired powerplant with its multimillion pollution control system Where is the pollution controls in your naked fireplace or wood stove? God helps you if your neighbor burns firewood everyday.People are coughing with sinus congestion etc because of soot and particulates that our bodies are working overtime trying to get rid!
The major source of greenhouse gases produced in the U.S. is from coal fired power plants, period. Coal pollutes when it's mined, when it's burned and when the burnt ash is stored. Coal is never clean, it's toxic and pollutes our air, soil and water. That's why the concept of clean coal technology is BS made up by the coal industry. If you work for them you already know this. If not, wake up. And this may shock you but very few people in urban areas burn wood.
It would be a wonderful world to live in if we can do without coal, firewood, charcoal, cigarettes, diesel, and so on... The real issue lies on the ability of any of you to keep warm, cooking food, watch TV, drive, etc.. None of the producers is going to leave you cold on your asses overnight... It is up to you to find alternative energy sources yourselves and with all the help from your government, investors, banks, advocates, anybody you can think of.. It is a process.. continued..
You simply cannot tell any coal fired powerplant to simply shut down just because it is dirty ... It aint gonna happen tomorrow... Now,, are you prepared to put money where your fat lips is?? Nobody is gonna do the worrying for you but YOU all by YOURSELVES!! Meanwhile, energy producers will do business as usual per ongoing regulatory changes and so forth... We are getting there... It is useless to make fools out of yourselves!!
You've made so many excuses about why you think we need coal it sounds like you work for them. Coal powered the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it's simply time to change. You start by not building anymore coal fired power plants. Then add alternative sources of energy production and the infrastructure to support it. You stop making excuses to mine and burn coal. Stop poisoning ourselves and our planet.
I agree with you wholeheartedly... So far , we are still unable to replace even one coal fired powerplant with a cleaner or zero emission powerplant... Our energy demand is growing and the most we could do so far is to add as much green energy to the whole mix... Sure some dirty powerplants are shut down, but actually recession is just saving our green faces .. We still need to do energy conservation on a massive scale, but we are not there by a long shot continued
... I would love to see all coal fired powerplants shut down and replaced with either green sources or better still energy conservation... So before you make your next car trip or toss your washed clothes in your electric or gas dryer, think hard really hard!!! Get a clothesline and install it indoors for year round use... I already established my energy conservation program of my own and I am laughing at all of you!! check my youtube site and see how I keep my house warm...
Well, I personally still consider firewood far worse than coal per individual consumption average... Firewood is the worst fuel of all because of lack of emission controls! Really the worst!! If you ask me which I would prefer the poor people in Africa and Asia to burn - cowdung, firewood or whatever or have electricity hooked up to a spanking brand new coal fired powerplant... I would say coal ... Coal is a regulated fuel while firewood is not ... Firewood is way out of control!!
The reason people left firewood well alone is because they are still romantic about roaring fires and such. In reality, firewood ought to be banned or required to install emission controls like any other fuel.. People look at firewood as an independent spirit kind of energy source. You can make a dash for the mountains and chopped down trees and bring it home... It is a good feeling with a nosethumb at at the big bad wolf utiiilities!! it is a feeling good nonsnese!!
You have to start realizing by now that everyone is stalling everythng as long as possible in hopes that it will blow over before too long.. You cannot accomplish much by just talking or making stupid videos... For example.. I stopped using my 5000 watt clothes dryer and isntead hang clothes on a clothesline indoors to dry.. It works fine... what is your example?? c'mon? besides stupid floursecent light bulbs. that you cannot put your old lamp shade back on as before..
Instead of saying "You're a coal burning jackass" you could say - Do you breathe? Do you advocate burning Coal as energy? Chlorinated hydrocarbons (DDT, PCB)
and radionucleids (strontium-90, cesium- 130) are examples of introduced
synthetic materials that now are distributed in significant quantities throughout
the atmosphere. You breathe right? Your kids and friends - do they also breathe?
I recently drove from North Carolina to Nebraska- through part of the Coal Belt. It was an interesting journey- I learned that people who live and work with Coal need about 20 billboards per 30 miles of highway to remind them how great coal is. Some signs just say "COAL."
Can someone please stop MTR right now? I can turn my lights off- so can you- for the love of mountains. For the love of air. If you stand and protect the mountains you love or live near, I will do the same of mine.
Isn't it funny how the same group that espouses self-reliance and responsibility are the ones who deny their own role in wrecking the planet? That's because their philosophy is really based on self-interest, greed and fear. They are afraid of communism, the future, death, liberals, mexicans, atheists, women,
and the guy next door. They worship only money and the rich. Their leadership brought us to the edge of international financial collapse. It is an overt failure. Let's kill coal.
the area i was in was several times a jungle and once a sea... now it is prairie with winter 6 months a year... those are radical changes... the coal company i work for is presently setting up to manufacture activated carbon which takes the mercury out of flue gasses in coal fired plants, they are also building a carcon capture and sequestration power plant unit in conjunction with an oil company so they are at least doing something, though i agree we need to burn much less coal in the future
Yeah.....most people are stupid and don't care about anything except how much stuff they own and how they're gonna get more stuff. Big cars, big houses, big vacations. Nobody wants to sacrifice for the future of this planet.
Until climate change hits Joe the Plumber in his pocketbook, nothing's going to change.
remember the 70s when the big scare was global cooling? we were headed into another ice age... coal isnt the best option by any means ... but right now its the only option... besides im a coal miner so i am biased...lol
I remember the 1970's very well and the ice age thing you GW deniers keep raving on about was nothing and is one of your easiest debunked crocks.
Only a couple of scientists raised the idea that it might be possible due to photochemical smog, the media liked it but the scientists soon walked away from it.
Global Warming is real and beyond reasonable doubt is caused by human activity.
the global warming people have been pretty quiet the last few years since average temps have been dropping and the polar ice caps beeen growing again... i dont deny that mankind isnt helping things but there have been many climate changes over history... all the layers in the earth... each one of those represents a climate change.... and most of those happened before the industrial revolution
Take a look at the data on average global temperature over the last century and you'll see that there's always little spikes between years. However, this decade was the hottest in 100 years and the previous decade was the next hottest and the previous decade the next hottest. Ergo: the earth is warming.
The polar ice caps are shrinking and previous climate change events are not as radical as this one, nor were they man made, which this event is.
It must be because I gave you a link to follow to read my side of the story. But if coal was the reason for global warming. Why did we have the Ice age, and why has there been major droughts? The earth goes through cycles. and those repeat. Meteorological society has proven again that the earth is now cooling. The Ice caps came back last year like never before. Earth will take care of what we do to it with in reason.
Coal rules. I heat my house with it, CHEAP, AND WARM. My electricity comes from it, It is great. Coal just needs cleaned that is all. It comes from the ground, and returns to the ground as ash. Geez people.
No, coal doesn't rule. It's a FOSSIL FUEL. It is KILLING our atmosphere!! Alternative Energy, like Solar power (no pollution XD)is better for the entire Earth and all its people!
Tell me more about who taught you what you seem to know about coal hurting the atmosphere? I studied EPA reports, and have found they don't even know for sure. They say in the report " we believe" That means they don't know for sure. Also the meteorological society has now proven that the earth has actually cooled off in the last 5 years, proving it is just in a cycle. People do not have a large of an effect as they thought we did. Politicians are just making money on the thought, and we believe
Are you sure? Is that what the issue here is? That some one who is trying to have a discussion to understand some other persons view is a moron? Ok That will certainly win over any one to understand your point of view, and take your side on things. Way to go. Now I see why we still burn coal for power. I sure will continue to burn 5 ton a year open to the atmosphere at my home from now on. No scrubbers, no nothing!!!!!!! Let it dust the neighbors forever.
Thank you. Maybe I will double that to 10 tons a year. It is so cheap, and warm. I can heat my house on less than half the cost of natural gas, and I stay warm all winter. Coal rules. Black diamonds are the greatest.
your an idiot ha. ok lets say we do clean coal ok? that still doesnt change the fact it will eventually run out and we'd havenothing its better to swap to solar and wind now before we run out of fossil fuels anyway.
so since we are goin to run out some day lets not use it at all. Lets just be scared to death that in about 500 years we might run out of coal and instead not use coal or and ahve nothing to replace it with. great solution man, love your initiative. i dont expect a response cuz im sure your the first taking the bullet and not using electricity
who came up with the prediction of 20 years, and please dont tell me you got that from the epa or someother rediculous org. Just so you know who the EPA are, they asked my father to prove that our lake was a wetland, so go ahead and say im wrong about them
ha ha your an idiot :P and ofcourse a lake isnt wetland moron wetland is a swamp. hence the term wetLAND so you yet AGAIN have proved your thick please keep talking me and my mates have been getting great laughs off you :P
your an idiot who allows people, like Algore, to scare you into believing something that there is no proof of. You know you should be scared of something so lets be afraid that we are killin the earth with glodal warming. But then you have to come smack into facts like, the earths temp has dropped a 1/3 of a degree in the past 8 years. And there is now more glacial ice today than there was 6 years ago. Doesnt it suck when your absurd fears comes smack into fact as being false sucks dont it
Coal is one of the world's fastest growing energy sources. It fuels almost 40% of electricity worldwide, with even higher percentages in several countries. However, coal is also the most unclean energy source in the world. Upon burning, coal releases a number of problem pollutants such as mercury, sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide. These pollutants are not only harmful to breathe in, but are also avid greenhouse gases and contribute significantly to global warming.
AMARADIserdar 1 month ago
@AMARADIserdar Global warming is fake....
i went to a comvention and the 2 scientists eplained how it's fake and that they
got in trouble by the goverment for there reasons......
But thats okay when the time comes the goats will stay and the sheep will go!
57perky57 1 month ago
wtf did i just watch ahhahaat the end it said cheap, abundent, clean(cheap) go back and look at what is writen.
starlingrad411 4 months ago
wtf did i just watch ahhahah
starlingrad411 4 months ago
Minecraft B3
TrollSushi 4 months ago
Wow. Everyone that supports coal is an idiot. Fantastic message to convey. Being an elitist is the best way to spread your message. I'm sure that because the creators of this video could make a fairly well produced video they know what they're talking about. Fuck statistics or other scientific/logistical observations, unnecessary. We just need to hammer people with sarcastic, condescending nonsense to get our point across. Do some fucking research and don't rely on the Sierra Club for info.
ToupeeFiasco 6 months ago
Guys, I'm pretty sure that this is a satire. I really hope this is a satire
lacktopher 8 months ago
Some people are dumb,I'm in middle school and I know coal doesn't grow in the ground,money is not the most important thing in the world,and energy doesn't come from a wall,coal is not cheap or clean!
msnuce 8 months ago
My friend has a pool :D..... xD
blah72100 8 months ago 5
wow this is very dumb col grows on the ground
traceywimberly 8 months ago
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MagnesiumMichael 9 months ago
im the 1000th to like :)
SyluxGT 9 months ago
I'm a coal miner with 36 years underground, and for all those 36 years, i've heard many comments about shutting down the coal industry and using another energy source. If there was another energy source that could replace coal, it would already be in use,and the mining industry would have already been shut down. Face it, we're here to stay and all the crying and bitching is in vain. Long live coal and the American coal miner.
jimr1951 10 months ago
@jimr1951
Problem is wind and solar are so expensive and intermittent that just to make it somehow economically feasible, the government has to pump millions in subsidies. The "most green" baseload power source is Nuclear, and it has its drawbacks. The green fad NEVER focuses on the negatives of Wind and Solar, just that they are clean and somehow will solve the worlds problems.
The more sensible choice is install scrubbers on plants without them. But sensibility is not what green peps want.
Allante715 9 months ago
@Allante715 wind power is crazy looking
MagnesiumMichael 9 months ago
How coal becomes electricity
/watch?v=e_CcrgKLyzc
anonimity304 11 months ago
As a man who has worked in the coal industry for many years, I can say that YES the burning of coal can have its drawbacks. But, I can say that technology has made some major improvements on the environmental impact of it. Coal is being converted to fuel pellets which greatly reduce the amount of CO2 released during the burning. I worked in a coal lab for 4 years and have been working underground as a coal miner for 2 years.
anonimity304 11 months ago
"The future is later." :D
werndl 11 months ago 2
Maybe, if we all turned off our computers, stopped wasting time on youtube and actually did something proactive, rather then making inane comments on parodies, we'd need to burn less coal?
Just a thought.
rhythmandbluesalibi 11 months ago
Iphone=7 watts per battery charge=1400mAh battery that chrages using 5 volts. Watts = Volts x Current Watts = 5V x 1.4Ah = 7 WattHours 1 watt =0.001 kilowatts so 7watts=.007kw*8,760 hours in a year=61.32kwh. 40 percent of thermal energy in coal is converted to electricity. So the electricity generated per ton of coal is 0.4 x 6150 kWh or 2460 kWh/ton. So 62.32kwh/2460kwh/ton=.02534tons*2240 pounds=56.75lbs/year charged once a day x 26.378 million iphones in the world = 1496.9515 million lbs/year
wturner0018 1 year ago
@wturner0018 That'd be easier to understand if it was consistently in metric.
rhythmandbluesalibi 11 months ago
@rhythmandbluesalibi are my calculations incorrect?
wturner0018 11 months ago
"Cheap Power is Clean Power" - holey fuck, you fucking dumb shit
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slanderousndgs 1 year ago
this parody shows demonstrates how stupid the majority of humanity is, it makes me sad
roflex2 1 year ago
At first I laughed at ths. Then, I got really really sad.
FireAndFlames 1 year ago 2
i liked the buffalo in the background.
beckoshka 1 year ago
America should at least invest into solar power, like the chinese do. They have the biggest solar industry in the world. America has the same potential.
Staatl 1 year ago
Coal Kills: This video is Bull Shit. There is no such thing as clean coal. Coal causes sickness, disease, and death throughout its lifecycle. There are over 200 deadly toxic chemicals in coal. They include arsenic, lead, cyanide, mercury, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and more. Coal is 300 times more deadly than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Coal waste is reponsible for the death of prehaps millions of American and more Chinese. Most superfund sites contain coal waste. Stop lying
Rubenleesims 1 year ago
@Rubenleesims this is a parody
phenylketonuric1 1 year ago
@phenylketonuric1 I know it's a parody, I just did not find it funny because coal ash waste is quite serious. Many victims of coal ash waste which includes me fail to see the humor in our sickness and death of our loved ones. But any message against coal is a good message I suppose.
Rubenleesims 1 year ago
"The most important thing in this world is my family's money."
He should have ended at family.
ZZZcatsy 1 year ago
Coal was our past and will be our future when naive environmentalists step away from their destructive agenda. Coal isn't clean but if the government gave half the money to those seeking cleaner ways to use coal as they give to wasteful "green" causes we might actually find a cleaner way to use coal.
pinewoodsparrow 1 year ago
oh my god. you guys hit a nerve. this is the most amazing rant of comments I've ever seen on a parody.
megahappy 1 year ago
Let's paint everyone who is associated with coal as uneducated. Nifty idea, throwing some black makeup on the guy's face and having him cough. There are more stringent policies in place for EVERY mine in the US than there are in nearly every other industry. There are risks associated with it, just as there are risks associated with driving a car to work or flying on an airplane for a business trip. Implying that coal miners are neglected/uneducated is profiling and nothing more than propaganda.
mclefty1 1 year ago
hahaha, awesome! :)
MrSkogshus 1 year ago
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Conventional coal emits sulfur, nitrogen, Co2, and soot
Clean coal eliminates all except Co2
Methane gas (CH4) from underwater seabeds all over the world contains over 20 times the potency and during a volcanic eruption mega tons of sulfur, So2, CO2, CO, HF and hydrogen are emitted
Most of these gases are considered green house gas responsible global warming
Therefore we should..[Post your deductive reasoning here]
TitaniumBallz 1 year ago
Coal The big dirty LIE!
The words spreading- only solar is clean and free
1canyonguy 1 year ago
@1canyonguy
Solar power will totally provide all of our energy needs! And Nastradamus was right about 9/11, the moon landing never happened, and Kennedy was assassinated by our own government.
mclefty1 1 year ago
"I don't vote" xD
PhilTheDipper 1 year ago
On nous ment!
Et honte a ceux qui preférent voir des mines a charbon ,ou des centrales nucleaires pres de chez eux plutot que des éoliennes!
elefteria44 1 year ago
Clean coal, clean miner conditions and safety, clean methane gas, lead and mercury, yep all clean killers!
XionXXXX 1 year ago
Each year in the U.S. a ton of coal yields less embodied energy than a ton from the previous year...
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
fact is that coal is not even cheap; when you add up the externalized costs - Report shows an additional 8 cents per kwh for health, environment, etc. An invisible tax that we all pay
atomicchitlin 1 year ago
@atomicchitlin
I would love to see a link to this report.
mclefty1 1 year ago
This man is right THE FUTURE IS LATER!!!
WaitWhatWasThat1 1 year ago
As a resident of Southern West Virginia, I can testify to the wreck and ruin caused by greedy mining companies, choosing profit over people. Here in Lincoln County, the Hobet mine is poisoning our streams and rivers with selenium. It's causing birth defects and sickness in my neighbors and we're plumb fed up with it.
Our state government rolls over like a little puppy when the coal barons say 'boo' and there's zero accountability.
ChinaMarine556 1 year ago 21
hahahahaha brilliant
VastFilm 1 year ago
This is so funny. Im going to burn a couple tires just to celebrate.
gumimalac 1 year ago 7
ah haha thats great =3
therealandycook 2 years ago
What a load of balls
Christopher3786 2 years ago
clean my ass. Dont you read the history books? Shit, I was gonna say industrial revolution, but that was steam power. But coal is not clean. It is toxic to breathe. Is water toxic to breathe?
Aresftfun 2 years ago
@Aresftfun No, water isn't toxic, but if you breathe it you will still fucking die. It's called drowning.
/aside: You should see the TED talk by Bill Gates on Nuclear power fucking inspirational.
Somesortadog 1 year ago
The most important thing in the world is money....HAHAHAHAHAHA. Lol
Aresftfun 2 years ago
Absolutely BRILLIANT.
soyvot 2 years ago 4
The future... is later.
drewk339 2 years ago 27
Well done!
Rockinnate 2 years ago
Wind energy. If we took 1 tillion dollars the cost of the wars in you know where. 1 trillion/4 million (estimated cost of scale for a commercial one wind turbine) would net 25 billion wind turbines. One wind turbine can generate 2.5MWh electricity. 2.5MWh can power 350 homes in a northern cold state. 25 billion X 250 homes? I think that pretty much covers the US needs for power. Just having fun here, don't shoot the messenger. I prefer nuclear over coal power plants anyday.
ToxicBrainSyndrome 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
do you realize what the landscape would look like with 25 BILLION wind turbines? There would be no room left for the houses you want to power?
DamnStraightM35A2 2 years ago
Don't you see the humor in my post and don't you see the reality of waste in our world? 25 billion wind generators, of course is not reality! There is only 2.3 billion acres in the united states from sea to sea and one acre will support one generator. Would anyone be ok with 50, one for each state, and the power created will have to be diverted to a homeless shelters at no charge.
The rest of the trillion dollars would have to go to fix our broken educational system instead, sound better?
ToxicBrainSyndrome 2 years ago
hahah..
fermerwuvu 2 years ago 2
At this rate we might aswell move to Mars :l
tehbomb100 2 years ago 2
COAL GROWS IN THE GROUND OR SOMETHING!! hahahahaha. Clean Coal does NOT exist!
leeeroooyjenkyns 2 years ago 6
hahahah,, the coal grows in the ground or something!!!!!! HILLARIOUS!!!!!!!!
iloveyou4everize 2 years ago 2
Just as funny each time I see it. Good luck rockin' Toronto.
SomeChaz 2 years ago 2
Hilarious! Congrats on the funny or die feature!
MisterArkLever 2 years ago 3
Funny. The Chinese are building two coal plants per month. They own our debt. When they take over they will respect your flower power wind power cumbaya peace love thing.
autofletch 2 years ago
Funny how the narrator say "cheap, abundant, clean" but the caption reads "cheap, abundant, cheap".
jasbcor 2 years ago 5
lol it means is cheap, abundant, hazardous.
SuperMrBentley 2 years ago
Haha, we were shown this video today in my AP Government and Politics class. My opinions lie in the centrist category, and I think this vid is a good way to make fun of the conservatives when it comes to energy
waffle2091 2 years ago
coal is to ancient it doesnt represent 21 century it is something we need to forget FAST!
aspagonis 2 years ago
I'm sold. I'm going to buy a sack today.
EscapePodFilms 2 years ago
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drumr552 2 years ago
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PitPenguins87PSN 2 years ago
Coal is the worst possible energy source to drive our country's needs - except for everything else.
jbtascam 2 years ago
lol, this vid had me going for a second....I was like 'no way who are these idiots'. LMAO, superb parody.
SuckersTillTheEnd 2 years ago
"the future is later" so you want your kids to have to try to make alternative forms of power affordable? you want your kids to be around when we run out of non-renewable fule sorce...
danz409 2 years ago
love how the video makes fun of the coal industry brainwash.
now they even have coal-themed calendars and coloring books for pre-schoolers.
somebody talked about evil...
alleyghost 2 years ago 3
thats hysterical
really smart comedy
MovieMike2010 2 years ago 5
I hope those people are not serious. Coal is a cheap, dirty, evil source of power that pollutes our nation. Coal is not clean at all, and it actually creates about 10% of our pollution.
dockwellian45 2 years ago
Umm where did you obtain this information? I would be interested in seeing the source. Coal is cheep, clean and viable.
iluvherb 2 years ago
Uhh huh. And so you're agreeing with people who say "My family's money is the most important thing in the world", "Wind power is crazy-looking" "Coal grows in the ground or something", or "I love my job!"(wiping his forehead and sweating hardly). No. Even "The future is later". You're crazy.
dockwellian45 2 years ago
Face it we are all going to be dead in 40-50 or even 70 years. I wont care because i will be dead. Also it is funny how people think they can make a global impact. Man is responsible for ~10% of the worlds pollutants. A coal power plant is much more efficient than any car on the road. It is viable and dirt cheep!!! Do you have electricity? Chances are it is coal powered. Cheep clean and affordable.
iluvherb 2 years ago
More nonsensical rantings. Coal plants more efficient than an internal combustion engine? Where are you getting this drivel? Viable? Dirt Cheap? Do you know anything?
10% of world's pollutants? What does that even mean? Where are your sources? You don't care because you'll be dead? That's the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard.
Pathetic. Go bury your head back in the sand.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
From enviropedia... Natural sources of sulphur dioxide include release from volcanoes, biological decay and forest fires. Actual amounts released from natural sources in the world are difficult to quantify. In 1983 the United Nations Environment Programme estimated a figure of between 80 million and 288 million tonnes of sulphur oxides per year (compared to around 69 million tonnes from human sources world-wide). The list goes on. Humans count for very little pollution on a global scale.
iluvherb 2 years ago
I don't know where you got this or what the source info is but this "volcano" argument is log debunked. Check this video out for more:
watch?v=WPA-8A4zf2c
You can also check out the USGS website for more info, simply google:
"volcanic gases usgs"
Volcano SO2 emissions are less than anthropogenic ones. What's more, anthropogenic SO2 emissions are much closer to large cities, etc. and this is the major source of smog and acid-rain formation.
Volcanoes have also been around... forever.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
Clean?! Have you seen the smoke coming from one of those plants?
dockwellian45 2 years ago
so funny!
xxPowerOnxx 2 years ago
Love the bit where he says "so you can spend your money on more important things" then shows a hummer driving past. hahaaa
ang14474 2 years ago
LOL "Coal grows in the ground or something" LOL
mike73ng 2 years ago
I loled at that too, haha.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
I am sorry that these people that hate coal so much will never really know anything about where it comes from, or the people that support their families with the mining of it.
dmtenman 2 years ago
I'm glad to know that the destruction of inumerable species, not to mention human health, keeps a few families with food on their tables. Love the video. Very clever.
KemoreJ 2 years ago
Name one of the species please and name one person whos health has suffered "destruction" please, If you would show how you had the power disconnected from your house I would start to think you actually believe any of the dribble that flows out of you.
dmtenman 2 years ago
How about mankind.
HAHAHAUSUCK2 2 years ago
@dmtenman well said!
clownnamedmalesto 2 years ago
I actually know a lot about where it comes from. And it doesn't support many families at all.
Did you know that the wind industry now employs more people in the united states than coal does? And wind is only at about 1/50th the capacity of coal generation right now... imagine how many people we could put to work if we replaced coal with wind and solar!
O wait, you probably can't imagine anything...
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
Your statement right there is exactly why wind is not a viable and more important affordable source of energy. With your statistics it sounds like we can put the whole state of California to work on wind power and our energy demands would still not be meet.
iluvherb 2 years ago
Wind power is cheaper than nuclear power, and if the externalized costs of coal were accounted for (and the coal companies made responsible for them) then coal would be, by far, the most expensive form of power generation, even more than nuclear.
Putting "all of California" to work through wind power is a ridiculous statement. If you said that in seriousness then I wonder about your mental stability. I further wonder at your insinuation that putting people to work is a bad thing.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
Let me be clear. The statement that "Coal is cheep (sic), clean and viable" is borderline psychotic. It has never been, and never will be, any of those. Coal kills. Coal is exploitative. It is time for us to start being responsible for our actions.
"If we use fuel to generate our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly.
This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations."
- Nikola Tesla, 1915
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
Some people have idealistic views but in all reality the most important thing is that power is reliable and affordable. That statement my family money is more true than you might want to admit.
How did Tesla think we should generate power? There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. We are all confined to the laws of physics. Even the great Tesla. I think there is a reason he died as a pauper.
iluvherb 2 years ago
"the most important thing is that power is reliable and affordable"
More important than the ability of this planet to sustain the current biosphere? You're insane.
You obviously know nothing about these issues or Tesla. Where did you get "perpetual motion machine?" No one brought that up. Take your lunatic ravings to some other message board. I'm tired of nutjobs like you.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
Sorry about my Tesla statement. For something to work it needs to be viable. Tesla from what I read was idealistic. I assume you are as well. He died a very poor man. For something to work it has to be economically viable. Look at Tesla's peers Westinghouse and Edison. I agree with you on so many of your points but our society has not evolved enough. We embrace a free enterprise marketplace where cheapest is the best. I am all for green power. I just don't want to pay more for it.
iluvherb 2 years ago
Every single thing Tesla ever did was viable. He held more patents than just about anyone else in history. He invented florescent lighting and A/C power. How dare you label him an "idealist" and then use that to brush aside whatever he'd say. Not only is it Ad Hominem it is offensive.
He died a pauper because he gave his patents away. He was not obsessed, as you obviously are, with material possession and wealth. His goal and dream was the advancement of science for the betterment of mankind.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago
Looking only at the "price" of energy is not looking at its true cost. Coal, etc. have massive and extensive externalized costs that those companies are not held responsible for. If they were held accountable then those forms of energy would be by far the most expensive. Externalized costs include things like degradation to public health and the environment, etc. Just because you don't pay those costs on your electric bill doesn't mean they aren't being paid, if not by you then by someone else.
Pandonodrim 2 years ago 2
..or the people that support their families by building guns, growing tobacco, opium poppy and coca.
Kykk 2 years ago
What about the families that live near the shore? You know, the ones who will likely lose ground as ocean levels rise? Every step in progress has always had Luddites whom are hurt by it. For example: the original Luddites. The textile industry had started going mechanical, and people were losing their jobs by the boatload, so they started destroying the machines. Unfortunately, that happens with progress. But progress must be made.
JorickHorn 2 years ago
bwahahahaha "electricity comes from the walls in my home.... where i live" great STUFF!
kmaddap 2 years ago
Coal ain't the future, it's the past. You have to realize that coal is everything but green. Coal as an alternative source of power would bring you guys back in time, sorry
stripparo 2 years ago
It's satire you dumbfuck.
xDecemberFlower 2 years ago 4
COAL RCOKS
Letsgoherd3008 2 years ago
FUCK YOU ITS CHEAP AND CLEAN
Letsgoherd3008 2 years ago
Cheap IS clean... hahahaha
Daltome 2 years ago
the last coal power plant in france was closed in 2006 and the last coal plant in denmark was closed in 2005
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badgoogleboy 2 years ago
"Wind power is crazy looking!"
"The future - is later."
"The most important thing in the world, is my family's money."
"Electricity comes from the walls in my home. Where I live."
Bahaha. Solid f-ing gold.
AnnaKBrisvegas 2 years ago
You did a big favor to thousands and thousands of firewood peddlers!!! now more and more homeowners agree with your clean coal criticism and start loading their fireplaces and woodstoves with firewood on a daiily basis!! The air is getting dirtier than EVER! We are losing the war on air pollution all over again!! Thank you so much for your misinformation!! You are a wonderful guy!
junkyardnut 2 years ago
No offense, but your post makes no sense. Coal fired power plants have zero connection to people burning wood if they happen to have a wood stove or a fire place. And coal pollutes the environment when it is mined, when it's burned and by the toxic slurry or ash produced from burning. Coal's never a clean fuel so the video is not misinformation, the misunderstanding however seems to be yours.
AlNouveau 2 years ago
There is much more firewood on sale ..in grocery, hardware, Macy's, you name it than ever before. People are thinking that by switching to firewood we will solve the global climate change. Coal is far cleaner than firewood Your fireplace or stove lacks pollution controls EPA has yet to weigh heavily on firewood You simply cannot ignore firewood You are not solving any climate issues by any means at all I am trying to remind people who are against coal to look at firewood , too...
junkyardnut 2 years ago
People seems to think that by cutting coal down we will have more room in our air to pollute with firewood. Firewood is much closer to you than the coal fired powerplant with its multimillion pollution control system Where is the pollution controls in your naked fireplace or wood stove? God helps you if your neighbor burns firewood everyday.People are coughing with sinus congestion etc because of soot and particulates that our bodies are working overtime trying to get rid!
junkyardnut 2 years ago
The major source of greenhouse gases produced in the U.S. is from coal fired power plants, period. Coal pollutes when it's mined, when it's burned and when the burnt ash is stored. Coal is never clean, it's toxic and pollutes our air, soil and water. That's why the concept of clean coal technology is BS made up by the coal industry. If you work for them you already know this. If not, wake up. And this may shock you but very few people in urban areas burn wood.
AlNouveau 2 years ago
It would be a wonderful world to live in if we can do without coal, firewood, charcoal, cigarettes, diesel, and so on... The real issue lies on the ability of any of you to keep warm, cooking food, watch TV, drive, etc.. None of the producers is going to leave you cold on your asses overnight... It is up to you to find alternative energy sources yourselves and with all the help from your government, investors, banks, advocates, anybody you can think of.. It is a process.. continued..
junkyardnut 2 years ago
You simply cannot tell any coal fired powerplant to simply shut down just because it is dirty ... It aint gonna happen tomorrow... Now,, are you prepared to put money where your fat lips is?? Nobody is gonna do the worrying for you but YOU all by YOURSELVES!! Meanwhile, energy producers will do business as usual per ongoing regulatory changes and so forth... We are getting there... It is useless to make fools out of yourselves!!
junkyardnut 2 years ago
You've made so many excuses about why you think we need coal it sounds like you work for them. Coal powered the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it's simply time to change. You start by not building anymore coal fired power plants. Then add alternative sources of energy production and the infrastructure to support it. You stop making excuses to mine and burn coal. Stop poisoning ourselves and our planet.
AlNouveau 2 years ago
I agree with you wholeheartedly... So far , we are still unable to replace even one coal fired powerplant with a cleaner or zero emission powerplant... Our energy demand is growing and the most we could do so far is to add as much green energy to the whole mix... Sure some dirty powerplants are shut down, but actually recession is just saving our green faces .. We still need to do energy conservation on a massive scale, but we are not there by a long shot continued
junkyardnut 2 years ago
... I would love to see all coal fired powerplants shut down and replaced with either green sources or better still energy conservation... So before you make your next car trip or toss your washed clothes in your electric or gas dryer, think hard really hard!!! Get a clothesline and install it indoors for year round use... I already established my energy conservation program of my own and I am laughing at all of you!! check my youtube site and see how I keep my house warm...
junkyardnut 2 years ago
Well, I personally still consider firewood far worse than coal per individual consumption average... Firewood is the worst fuel of all because of lack of emission controls! Really the worst!! If you ask me which I would prefer the poor people in Africa and Asia to burn - cowdung, firewood or whatever or have electricity hooked up to a spanking brand new coal fired powerplant... I would say coal ... Coal is a regulated fuel while firewood is not ... Firewood is way out of control!!
junkyardnut 2 years ago
The reason people left firewood well alone is because they are still romantic about roaring fires and such. In reality, firewood ought to be banned or required to install emission controls like any other fuel.. People look at firewood as an independent spirit kind of energy source. You can make a dash for the mountains and chopped down trees and bring it home... It is a good feeling with a nosethumb at at the big bad wolf utiiilities!! it is a feeling good nonsnese!!
junkyardnut 2 years ago
You have to start realizing by now that everyone is stalling everythng as long as possible in hopes that it will blow over before too long.. You cannot accomplish much by just talking or making stupid videos... For example.. I stopped using my 5000 watt clothes dryer and isntead hang clothes on a clothesline indoors to dry.. It works fine... what is your example?? c'mon? besides stupid floursecent light bulbs. that you cannot put your old lamp shade back on as before..
junkyardnut 2 years ago
Instead of saying "You're a coal burning jackass" you could say - Do you breathe? Do you advocate burning Coal as energy? Chlorinated hydrocarbons (DDT, PCB)
and radionucleids (strontium-90, cesium- 130) are examples of introduced
synthetic materials that now are distributed in significant quantities throughout
the atmosphere. You breathe right? Your kids and friends - do they also breathe?
cameraperson 2 years ago
I recently drove from North Carolina to Nebraska- through part of the Coal Belt. It was an interesting journey- I learned that people who live and work with Coal need about 20 billboards per 30 miles of highway to remind them how great coal is. Some signs just say "COAL."
Can someone please stop MTR right now? I can turn my lights off- so can you- for the love of mountains. For the love of air. If you stand and protect the mountains you love or live near, I will do the same of mine.
cameraperson 2 years ago
"whats this for?" buahahahaaa
Ahjaniyepa 2 years ago
Isn't it funny how the same group that espouses self-reliance and responsibility are the ones who deny their own role in wrecking the planet? That's because their philosophy is really based on self-interest, greed and fear. They are afraid of communism, the future, death, liberals, mexicans, atheists, women,
and the guy next door. They worship only money and the rich. Their leadership brought us to the edge of international financial collapse. It is an overt failure. Let's kill coal.
Go Solar!
Yavor54 2 years ago 2
the area i was in was several times a jungle and once a sea... now it is prairie with winter 6 months a year... those are radical changes... the coal company i work for is presently setting up to manufacture activated carbon which takes the mercury out of flue gasses in coal fired plants, they are also building a carcon capture and sequestration power plant unit in conjunction with an oil company so they are at least doing something, though i agree we need to burn much less coal in the future
snowbiker111 2 years ago
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
onestepbelowgod 2 years ago
is paid for by the gov
Almightyyoda 2 years ago
i thought this vid was 4 real at first, but then i saw the car ...... lol
hourglassninja 2 years ago
LMAO 5* n favourited
kimberleycalling 3 years ago
Cheap. Abundant. Cheap. HAHAHAHa
katester73 3 years ago
This is really funny and has an awesome message! Good Job!
katester73 3 years ago
My friend has a pool.
LOL
CKelleyStudios 3 years ago 5
"whats this for?" best part
gaastra60 3 years ago
"One thing stays exactly the same....."
Yeah.....most people are stupid and don't care about anything except how much stuff they own and how they're gonna get more stuff. Big cars, big houses, big vacations. Nobody wants to sacrifice for the future of this planet.
Until climate change hits Joe the Plumber in his pocketbook, nothing's going to change.
We're cooked.
WhoaNellieGirl 3 years ago 3
coal is the future!
nzoomed 3 years ago
Rofl. This is very cool
onewhaleid 3 years ago
rofl this man and I had such a crazy but hot time last night!
kimberlymoorer2 3 years ago
remember the 70s when the big scare was global cooling? we were headed into another ice age... coal isnt the best option by any means ... but right now its the only option... besides im a coal miner so i am biased...lol
snowbiker111 3 years ago
I remember the 1970's very well and the ice age thing you GW deniers keep raving on about was nothing and is one of your easiest debunked crocks.
Only a couple of scientists raised the idea that it might be possible due to photochemical smog, the media liked it but the scientists soon walked away from it.
Global Warming is real and beyond reasonable doubt is caused by human activity.
kimberleycalling 2 years ago
the global warming people have been pretty quiet the last few years since average temps have been dropping and the polar ice caps beeen growing again... i dont deny that mankind isnt helping things but there have been many climate changes over history... all the layers in the earth... each one of those represents a climate change.... and most of those happened before the industrial revolution
snowbiker111 2 years ago
Take a look at the data on average global temperature over the last century and you'll see that there's always little spikes between years. However, this decade was the hottest in 100 years and the previous decade was the next hottest and the previous decade the next hottest. Ergo: the earth is warming.
The polar ice caps are shrinking and previous climate change events are not as radical as this one, nor were they man made, which this event is.
kimberleycalling 2 years ago
It must be because I gave you a link to follow to read my side of the story. But if coal was the reason for global warming. Why did we have the Ice age, and why has there been major droughts? The earth goes through cycles. and those repeat. Meteorological society has proven again that the earth is now cooling. The Ice caps came back last year like never before. Earth will take care of what we do to it with in reason.
s16100 3 years ago
I don't know why I have posted an answer to your question two times this morning and neither of the answers are showing up?
s16100 3 years ago
Coal rules. I heat my house with it, CHEAP, AND WARM. My electricity comes from it, It is great. Coal just needs cleaned that is all. It comes from the ground, and returns to the ground as ash. Geez people.
s16100 3 years ago
No, coal doesn't rule. It's a FOSSIL FUEL. It is KILLING our atmosphere!! Alternative Energy, like Solar power (no pollution XD)is better for the entire Earth and all its people!
sasha2582 3 years ago
Tell me more about who taught you what you seem to know about coal hurting the atmosphere? I studied EPA reports, and have found they don't even know for sure. They say in the report " we believe" That means they don't know for sure. Also the meteorological society has now proven that the earth has actually cooled off in the last 5 years, proving it is just in a cycle. People do not have a large of an effect as they thought we did. Politicians are just making money on the thought, and we believe
s16100 3 years ago
You are a moron.
astrodoc51 3 years ago 2
Are you sure? Is that what the issue here is? That some one who is trying to have a discussion to understand some other persons view is a moron? Ok That will certainly win over any one to understand your point of view, and take your side on things. Way to go. Now I see why we still burn coal for power. I sure will continue to burn 5 ton a year open to the atmosphere at my home from now on. No scrubbers, no nothing!!!!!!! Let it dust the neighbors forever.
s16100 3 years ago
astro is right. You are a fucking moron
saboto9900 3 years ago
Thank you. Maybe I will double that to 10 tons a year. It is so cheap, and warm. I can heat my house on less than half the cost of natural gas, and I stay warm all winter. Coal rules. Black diamonds are the greatest.
s16100 3 years ago
Oh so then tell me, why is there Global Warming you IDIOT?
sasha2582 3 years ago
your an idiot ha. ok lets say we do clean coal ok? that still doesnt change the fact it will eventually run out and we'd havenothing its better to swap to solar and wind now before we run out of fossil fuels anyway.
STUNTS1516 3 years ago
in the year 2550...
raptors222222 3 years ago
so since we are goin to run out some day lets not use it at all. Lets just be scared to death that in about 500 years we might run out of coal and instead not use coal or and ahve nothing to replace it with. great solution man, love your initiative. i dont expect a response cuz im sure your the first taking the bullet and not using electricity
jstone6481 3 years ago
actually we'll be ut of coal within 20 years.
STUNTS1516 3 years ago
who came up with the prediction of 20 years, and please dont tell me you got that from the epa or someother rediculous org. Just so you know who the EPA are, they asked my father to prove that our lake was a wetland, so go ahead and say im wrong about them
jstone6481 3 years ago
ha ha your an idiot :P and ofcourse a lake isnt wetland moron wetland is a swamp. hence the term wetLAND so you yet AGAIN have proved your thick please keep talking me and my mates have been getting great laughs off you :P
STUNTS1516 3 years ago
your the biggest idiot i've ever heard :P yes thats right fossil fuels dont cause global warming so what does? pixy dust and magic?
STUNTS1516 3 years ago
your an idiot who allows people, like Algore, to scare you into believing something that there is no proof of. You know you should be scared of something so lets be afraid that we are killin the earth with glodal warming. But then you have to come smack into facts like, the earths temp has dropped a 1/3 of a degree in the past 8 years. And there is now more glacial ice today than there was 6 years ago. Doesnt it suck when your absurd fears comes smack into fact as being false sucks dont it
jstone6481 3 years ago
lol ha ha yur an idiot XD
STUNTS1516 3 years ago
great retort, how about this "im rubber your Glue" rather than calling me an idiot present fact to prove me wrong, or shut the up
jstone6481 3 years ago
cool story bro.
21288003771215 3 years ago
Beware the evil wizard Algore!
zanders 3 years ago
he would certainly have to be a wizard to come up with insane results that he has.
jstone6481 3 years ago