Don't buy into it. There is no such thing as clean coal. It's dangerous to extract from the earth, and is not renewable. Coal is not a good replacement for oil or gas. Biodeisel, Solar, Tidal, Wind, HydroElectric, Geothermal, etc. are all better options than coal.
@ptireland Of the 6 sources of energy you listed only one is directly usable for transportation, biodiesel. Except when using waste oil biodiesel competes with food production, that means less food for starving people to eat. Coal is just sitting there waiting to be used. All of the by-products from the gasification process are recycled into a natural ecological cycle to produce food and other useful products people need to live.
@MarkProffitt Actually that's false. When using hemp or algae as the biodiesel fuel source instead of corn, you are not pulling away from the food supply, you don't require dangerous pesticides, and the soil is strengthened rather than being depleted as it is with corn.Also, any of those sources could be used for transportation if you are using an electric engine. Coal is inefficient, dirty, dangerous to acquire, and no matter what anyone says, there is no such thing as clean coal.
@ptireland Strawman argument (hahaha). Corn can be grown without pesticides with the same or better yields using permaculture techniques which would also produce other food crops and improve the fertility of the soil. Mono-crops of hemp would be just as damaging as any other mono-crop. While hemp is edible, alone it is not sufficient for human or animal feed. Plus if it's used for fuel it isn't being used for food. Any bio-diesel except from a waste product will reduce food production.
@MarkProffitt Totally disingenuous. Corn cannot be grown without pesticides and it erodes soil. Hemp does not require pesticides and strengthens the soil, even when not rotating crops. It does not damage the soil at all. Industrial hemp can be used for biomass fuel, industrial lubricants, plastics, etc. and the fact that it is generally not grown for food is a good thing because growing it does not pull from the food supply.
@MarkProffitt You can't have it both ways. If it's corn, you complain that it takes away from the food supply. If it's something else, you complain that food could be grown instead. You want to talk strawmen? We have more than enough food being grown in America and the world. Food is not in short supply, especially in America.
@MarkProffitt One more thing, hemp has 3 growing seasons so you can grow more of it per acre than corn. It's clean, renewable, doesn't require pesticides, grows in virtually any climate within America, etc.
How many people die mining coal? Thousands. How many die farming? A tiny fraction of the number who die mining coal. There is also the damage to the planet coal causes while hemp on the other hand does not damage the earth and creates a net reduction in carbon emissions.
@ptireland According to the U.S. Department of Labor 28 people die per year from mining accidents & 1300 are killed in farming accidents. 0.042% of farmers die per years but only 0.027% of miners. Mining 155% safer than farming.
Carbon from air is what makes plants. Nearly the exact amount of carbon in buried coal and oil is the amount needed for plants to cover all the deserts of the earth. Until the deserts are green again a net reduction of carbon is damaging the Earth.
@MarkProffitt Actually coal mining kills 24.8 per 100,000 employees per year in America while agricultural employees are 25.1 because they don't have the tight restrictions that mining does. Many of these deaths could be avoided by regulating farms to prevent children from working on them and keeping tighter controls on dangerous chemicals and pesticides. I call that a wash. You're insane if you think we need more carbon in the air or that less carbon is damaging the earth.
Wow, this is propaganda! They just happen to leave out that it still produces CO2, and lots of it!!! Using coal for energy will only cause global warming to happen faster....and who cares about roads when most of them are under water?
@laraeventide It doesn't produce CO2 it releases trapped CO2 that used to be plants on the surface of the planet. If you do the math you will find the carbon trapped in coal and oil matches the amount needed for plants and trees to cover the desert areas of the Earth. And those plants will absorb and use the water now trapped in ice so the greenest thing you can do is to release the trapped CO2 in coal and oil. Restore the global forest. :)
@laraeventide Check out his video to learn more about gasification. watch?v=0PZr9uXegZw This guy focuses on using biomass feed stock, but remember that coal is just stored biomass currently not being used. So in other words, it's solar energy.
@luisalberto363 CO2 is plant food. CH4 is methane which is a fuel the burns clean in to CO2 which is plant food. Yes, coal gasification is great for planet and provides all the energy needed for 800+ years.
I see the global warming fear-mongers have reached the comments section, by the looks of it.
stap0510 3 months ago
Don't buy into it. There is no such thing as clean coal. It's dangerous to extract from the earth, and is not renewable. Coal is not a good replacement for oil or gas. Biodeisel, Solar, Tidal, Wind, HydroElectric, Geothermal, etc. are all better options than coal.
ptireland 1 year ago
@ptireland Of the 6 sources of energy you listed only one is directly usable for transportation, biodiesel. Except when using waste oil biodiesel competes with food production, that means less food for starving people to eat. Coal is just sitting there waiting to be used. All of the by-products from the gasification process are recycled into a natural ecological cycle to produce food and other useful products people need to live.
MarkProffitt 1 month ago
@MarkProffitt Actually that's false. When using hemp or algae as the biodiesel fuel source instead of corn, you are not pulling away from the food supply, you don't require dangerous pesticides, and the soil is strengthened rather than being depleted as it is with corn.Also, any of those sources could be used for transportation if you are using an electric engine. Coal is inefficient, dirty, dangerous to acquire, and no matter what anyone says, there is no such thing as clean coal.
ptireland 1 month ago
@ptireland Strawman argument (hahaha). Corn can be grown without pesticides with the same or better yields using permaculture techniques which would also produce other food crops and improve the fertility of the soil. Mono-crops of hemp would be just as damaging as any other mono-crop. While hemp is edible, alone it is not sufficient for human or animal feed. Plus if it's used for fuel it isn't being used for food. Any bio-diesel except from a waste product will reduce food production.
MarkProffitt 1 month ago
@MarkProffitt Totally disingenuous. Corn cannot be grown without pesticides and it erodes soil. Hemp does not require pesticides and strengthens the soil, even when not rotating crops. It does not damage the soil at all. Industrial hemp can be used for biomass fuel, industrial lubricants, plastics, etc. and the fact that it is generally not grown for food is a good thing because growing it does not pull from the food supply.
ptireland 1 month ago
@MarkProffitt You can't have it both ways. If it's corn, you complain that it takes away from the food supply. If it's something else, you complain that food could be grown instead. You want to talk strawmen? We have more than enough food being grown in America and the world. Food is not in short supply, especially in America.
ptireland 1 month ago
@MarkProffitt One more thing, hemp has 3 growing seasons so you can grow more of it per acre than corn. It's clean, renewable, doesn't require pesticides, grows in virtually any climate within America, etc.
How many people die mining coal? Thousands. How many die farming? A tiny fraction of the number who die mining coal. There is also the damage to the planet coal causes while hemp on the other hand does not damage the earth and creates a net reduction in carbon emissions.
ptireland 1 month ago
@ptireland According to the U.S. Department of Labor 28 people die per year from mining accidents & 1300 are killed in farming accidents. 0.042% of farmers die per years but only 0.027% of miners. Mining 155% safer than farming.
Carbon from air is what makes plants. Nearly the exact amount of carbon in buried coal and oil is the amount needed for plants to cover all the deserts of the earth. Until the deserts are green again a net reduction of carbon is damaging the Earth.
MarkProffitt 1 month ago
@MarkProffitt Actually coal mining kills 24.8 per 100,000 employees per year in America while agricultural employees are 25.1 because they don't have the tight restrictions that mining does. Many of these deaths could be avoided by regulating farms to prevent children from working on them and keeping tighter controls on dangerous chemicals and pesticides. I call that a wash. You're insane if you think we need more carbon in the air or that less carbon is damaging the earth.
ptireland 1 month ago
wow, that's coal!(cool)
nealshireman 1 year ago
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flaviusicafsz 2 years ago
Wow, this is propaganda! They just happen to leave out that it still produces CO2, and lots of it!!! Using coal for energy will only cause global warming to happen faster....and who cares about roads when most of them are under water?
laraeventide 3 years ago
@laraeventide It doesn't produce CO2 it releases trapped CO2 that used to be plants on the surface of the planet. If you do the math you will find the carbon trapped in coal and oil matches the amount needed for plants and trees to cover the desert areas of the Earth. And those plants will absorb and use the water now trapped in ice so the greenest thing you can do is to release the trapped CO2 in coal and oil. Restore the global forest. :)
MarkProffitt 1 month ago
@laraeventide Check out his video to learn more about gasification. watch?v=0PZr9uXegZw This guy focuses on using biomass feed stock, but remember that coal is just stored biomass currently not being used. So in other words, it's solar energy.
MarkProffitt 1 month ago
it also produce CO2 and CH4
luisalberto363 3 years ago
@luisalberto363 CO2 is plant food. CH4 is methane which is a fuel the burns clean in to CO2 which is plant food. Yes, coal gasification is great for planet and provides all the energy needed for 800+ years.
MarkProffitt 1 month ago