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His catchphrase to get kids interested in mining: "Don't forget to bring a trowel!"
For mine workers this is Sooooo fucking true
Leave it to conservatives to come up with the least imaginative mascot possible.
As someone in electrical generation, coal is terrible, I promise. It contains a ton of energy, but, its by a LONG MILE the most dirty and polluting option for generation. I know this isn't news to anyone but at least you've got someone educated on the subject confirming.
Not even that, it's more expensive than natural gas and you can't even use it in a combined cycle plant. So you pay more and get less energy for it. You don't even need to mention pollution to show it is a terrible fuel.
I wasnt gonna bring combined cycle plants or HRSG's in general but you're absolutely right.
Just need a mascot of a little orphan boy with a bad cough. Black lung Billy, here to teach you about Kentucky's long and proud tradition of coal mining and why scrip needs to be legalized
How about Coalie’s older brother, Black Lungie?
you mean Stage 4 Tumorie?
Renamed under this admin to White Supreme Lungie.
I grew up in a county powered by Nuclear. The weird thing is that the plant was in basically the most beautiful part of the area. Their are hiking trails and parks nearby. And the artificial lakes are a huge tourist draw. Some of the most expensive real estate is practically in the shadow of the cooling towers.
The power generation that suffers from bad publicity is not coal.
Coal power plants emit more radiation than nuclear plants.
Don't forget the mercury.
Oh coal has bad publicity if you ever go to visit the top less mountains in Appalachia or speak to a doctor there. Coal, it'll kill you and your family too!
That along with weakening of child labor laws should make it much easier to children into the exciting world of coal mining.
If the popularity of Minecraft proved anything it is that children yearn for the mines
Instructions unclear pushed a child onto a landmine.
I responded to a profile on hinge that said they wanted a man who yearned for things with, "I yearn for oncoming traffic does that count, lmao"
Unsurprisingly I didn't get a match but I still wouldn't change anything lol
These fucks know coal is on its way out, the game is just to get their grubby little fingers on as many taxpayer-funded subsidies as they can before cover completely runs out.
Always has been.
If Trump was smarter he would defend coal by noting its need for making steel.
Hydrogen can be used as an alternative.
It can be used as a heat source sure
But the thing that makes steel steel is that it contains carbon
Dig iron ore up from the ground, and it's not going to have much if any carbon in it.
And unless you have some crazy particles accelerator/fusion reactor nonsense going on, nothing you do with just hydrogen is going to get carbon into that steel, because there's no carbon in hydrogen either.
Coal, however, is mostly carbon, so using as the heat source naturally tends to add carbon into your iron to make steel.
There's other ways of doing it, but at the end of the day most of them kind of rely on coal in one way or another at some point in the process because it's a really convenient source of carbon.
The next best alternative is probably cutting down a bunch of trees to process into charcoal
Would be really damn cool to be able to suck CO~2~ out of the air and use that carbon somehow, but to the best of my knowledge no one has figured out any efficient way to do that at scale.
Hydrogen can be used to reduce Iron ore without melting. This is then suitable for use in arc furnaces to produce steel with a 75% reduction in CO2 emissions, and by some processes without the use of additional coking agents.
Imagine being the person to make that graphic.
“You’re going to make pollution fun!”
“Yay! I’m a fucking asshole! Gotta eat tho!”
Looks like a Level 7 Constipation turd with eyes.
And Coalie doesn't look great either.
Looks like a constipated turd after you've taken too much pepto-bismol.
But Coalie is rad to the max.
I'm just glad they settled on something cartoonish for the mascot. A few of the concepts in the pitch meeting would have fit right in at a minstrel show.
Big Oil, coal and other shit have been worming their way into US education for decades, spreading lies, esp. against climate and environmental action. I once listened to a long podcast about this, interviewing parents etc. It was very interesting, and very depressing.
Most countries have realized long ago that it's time to let go of coal, and (mostly) done it. In any case, the topic doesn't carry any political water anymore. In the long run I think working people are better off there.
Burn it!!!!