Energy from Coal

[sertox12345]

my god just eating away at mother eartyh wow

[jeremysnowdenz]

Awesome how the coal mining works. Pretty awesome! Thanks for the post.

[michaeljones764]

just a note, either that is crap coal or its rock. last time i looked at the coal heap at work it was black..........

[TheJoshsam]

@michaeljones764

In the Rurh they need to dig of the first top layers to get to the coal. No crap coal buddy.

[michaeljones764]

@TheJoshsam

ah right. the russain coal we get is a brownish colour n crap for burning

[jbash1970]

I work at a coal company in Western Kentucky we have a few hundred emplyees working right now and that is great. What I want to know is what are all of you tree huggers and your children going to do if guys like us weren't mining coal? I know your butts would be sitting in the dark or froze to death that's where you would be. I wish there was a quick solution but there's not. But until something more dependable comes along we have to use what we have got. Do you understand?

[crazygeek777]

@jbash1970 *Cough* Nuclear energy *Cough*

[poplglop]

Seriously does it take more energy to run that thing than the amount of coal they get out of it!!!

[Allante715]

Also you cannot simply put a picture of wind turbines and make us connect the dots without numbers. One Coal fired power plant = 500-800MW. One Wind Turbine = 1-5MW. Coal is a steady 500-800 MW, Wind is NOT. There is NO silver bullet. If you see how much power it take to spin a 50 ton generator that is attached to a turbine in a coal power plant or nuclear power plant, it may put it into perspective.

[Allante715]

Coal will be replaced when a better and more reliable method comes along. Wind is defiantly not one of them. Yea I am going to litter the land with 800 wind turbines just to replace one coal fired power plant.

One pellet of Uranium used to fuel a Nuclear Power Plant contains the same amount of energy as a ton of coal. Nuclear is the way to go in the interim. Its not perfect but at least it can replace coal.

[alanheath]

@Allante715 I would love to believe that 800 turbines can replace one coal fired plant. But I fear that is not possible. I agree that nuclear is the only way to go for the present. Much is said about the dangers - and I agree - but no-one ever mentions how many lives are saved by electricity produced by nuclear plants.

I would love to believe that green energy can replace coal and nuclear but we live in a real world.

[BoTMSapper]

What you have in ya info.... you are full of crap... im in australia and where i am we have a rich brown coal core... there are 3 power stations in the area... where one is only 3km away from where i am, and 30km to the last one.. The power station close to me has been workin since the 1900's where my dad worked in one of them.. no health effects, nor any water pollution... as farmers use water down stream on there farms... there there was a problem with the water.. we would all be F&*^ED

[cyclenut]

In the US of fAt coal mining in the appalachian mountians are removing entire mountains to get the coal under them.. Entire mountains destroyed just to get what is the last easy?? coal... I don't call it easy to get becasue of what it takes to get to it..

The US of fAt may have lots of coal, but it is getting harder and harder to get to.

[BrothersFreedive]

we can't use wind energy it'll kill the poor poor birds, i'm a true environmentalist, the only cure for our planetary is total human suicide.

[DammitDrag]

@BrothersFreedive you first.

[rngrchad]

MINE IT, LOG IT, DRILL FOR IT

naysayers can wipe their asses with dry leaves for all I care.

[Knossos22]

@rngrchad

Well that is a very intelligent thing to post - NOT!

[signal44]

Well maybe I don't get your point, but I am not being rude in saying, you posted this on YOUTUBE, which uses electricity from coal, and people who veiw this vid use it on computers that use electricity from coal.

As of today my friend, we are sorta stuck with coal, I would love nuculear but US Govt. slow to take action.

[gcwagoner]

This machine is cool. Who cares what the tree huggers say.

[anantha05]

technology for invention. environmental impact is inevitable. no medicine without side effects. no wind mill without electricity from coal. better to manage the impact .Have a good environmental management plan in place .MINNING RESOURCES decide any nations economy. if u want to be in a good economy better be in minning as well

[acidorian]

Coal and oil shale can replace traditional sources of oil. stop the nonsense. the reason the mean btu of american coal goes down every year is because users are switching more and more to western "compliance" low sulfur PRB type coals which happen to have much lower btu/lb than eastern/midwestern mid/high sulfur coals.

[MrEnergyCzar]

Each year a ton of U.S. coal has less embodied energy versus a ton mined from the previous year...coal can't replace oil...

[Bnic5]

whats so wrong with this? im sure you used electricity to upload this video, and the problem with wind is it has to be backed up with a coal or natural gas fired power plant anyways so you are not eliminating the use of coal

[c18aztec]

how many miles per gallon on that XD

[EclipseRdaShit]

Why are they showing a gravel machine and linking it to coal??????

[aspagonis]

because its mines coal you idiot

[EclipseRdaShit]

At what moment in this video do you see coal???? Maybe I missed it.

[libbern]

Are you kidding?? Its called strip mining... The coal are just beneath the ground^^

[EclipseRdaShit]

So are you saying that they removed all that ground and have yet to get any coal?? Show me where in the video you see this machine anywhere around coal!!

[libbern]

(..........................) No. There are lots of coal in what you see the machine digs up. Of course, coal in its raw form does not have not be like what you use in the grill^^

Anyway, you have to be kidding.

[EclipseRdaShit]

Like I said, where in the video do they show coal????

[libbern]

Yepp, you are kidding... Havent you heard about oil sands? Its about the same, just coal. The coal are in a mixture with other minerals. It therefore looks like sand.

[EclipseRdaShit]

So are you saying that they are sifting sand for coal? You must be joking, this is nothing like oil sands. This is simply a video with the wrong background for the narration.

[texasdisciple74]

in surface mines sumtimes u have to take what we call overburden..well a shit load of dirt off the top of the coal the seam of coal can be really deep

[paulabo123]

this coal isnt black but brown.

[EclipseRdaShit]

Never heard of brown coal, all I have ever burned is black. We have 3 different types classified by size in my area. We burn nut (3-7" pieces) but friends of mine burn lump coal which is much bigger. All of which are black

[paulabo123]

i think in english this coal is called lignite coal. its younger than the black coal. and its blackbrown. we visit this mine from school years ago. really amazing. there are some real big maschines there

[Darkwizzrobe]

Yes this is brown coal or Lignite a kind of fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between Bituminous coal or black coal and peat. Its burned on site.

[epistte]

Its lignite.

[epistte]

This is a lignite mine in western Germany.

@C18' its electric powered.

[texasdisciple74]

everyone was made with the knowledge that u will one day diecurtishughes is rite u wont change a thing shutting down coal power plants oh wait yes u will u wont have no lights..... dumb asses

[libbern]

As we say in Norway... That (statement) came from the right ass!^^

[KTR94]

gota luv modern technology

[ElQuesoGuapo]

Sadly, those wind turbines at the end of the video would be hard pressed to just switch on all the lights on one of those bucketwheels.

[fugbot]

Beautiful machines! Extravagent!!

[dx3000555]

i thote this had to do with rs

[curtishughes]

Coal FTW!

Poison the water reserves, shoot the bears, hunt the fox, drive 4x4's over deer and harpoon the whale, all in a days work

Fucking hippies, let it go, your not going to change anything by crying when a weasel breaks a toe nail. Fuel reserves will run out, everyone in the 3rd world will die, all animals will be hunted and the earth will explode. There nothing you can do about it, so get over it!

[Curtizw18]

This man speaks the truth! everyone else stfu!

[Emprorer8]

Coal FTL!

Nobody deserves to Die...

[MamiyaOtaru]

Shouldn't have been born then

[csengeri]

Yes! The energetics! I just studying Energetics Engineering at university. Awesome effects on the houses what the Coal mining makes. We have to generate more electricity from nuclear power and hydroelectric power plants. Or use underground coal mines that does not pollute air.

[ariestheramone]

I used to operate heavy equipment, loading coal into trucks to be fed into a hopper to burn and refine iron, but I got laid off.

I just wish it didn't contribute to destruction of the earth.

[cattleman6420012000]

Very interesting video! Thanks very much for showing it.

[radeksimik]

Nice video, Bernd! It's ugly and beautiful at the same time. Hopefully, these pictures will soon become symbolic of the past times.

[bernardorion]

Well composed, good soundtrack, great footage, got the message...