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Lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and other poisons are in coal ash.
These can also be found in the dirt in your backyard, now and hundreds of years ago. It's not question of whether these things are present, it's whether the levels of them pose a health risk.
But there's no reason not to try to refine our usage of energy. Plus things like wind and solar are independence from the centralized grid. There could be a day where we are much more insulated from the risk of power outages. They're even refining the process of producing solar panels to make the production of solar panels more efficient and less dirty. We should always strive to improve, not rest on our laurels.
Even if coal becomes a minority in energy production there's no reason we should forget how to safely extract, and utilize it in a more efficient and clean manner.
Developing and using coal reserves to build an industrial economy is very short sighted and without imagination. African countries have the chance to quickly move from rural/agricultural/tribal economies directly into the knowledge based 21st Century without going through either the coal or the heavy industrialization. I think they should concentrate on education and thought based computerized economics. IMHO they could think their way into the 21st Century.
They send billions of e-mails and transfer millions of dollars to people around the globe on a daily basis.
You weren't aware? They have an abundance of EVERYTHING sitting in the ground.
So if you show concern about the environment and fossil fuel usage, you shouldn't get on a party boat?
SMGDH.
Yup. Part of why China's been busy buying up land in Africa
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Originally Posted by GregW
Developing and using coal reserves to build an industrial economy is very short sighted and without imagination. African countries have the chance to quickly move from rural/agricultural/tribal economies directly into the knowledge based 21st Century without going through either the coal or the heavy industrialization. I think they should concentrate on education and thought based computerized economics. IMHO they could think their way into the 21st Century.
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