Subject: Re: US LNG exports on track to top 120 million tonnes in 2026, Energy Secretary says
Robert Woodward <
robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
I think there is still quite a bit of anthracite in the US coal fields,
but it isn't being mined, because natural gas has replaced it for home >heating. BTW, the house my parents owned for 35 years was built in the
19th century, perhaps before the American Civil War, and had what used
to be a coal furnace in the basement that had been converted to natural
gas (I think in the 1950s, but it could had been earlier). There was a
room adjacent to it that still had a chute, probably because it was
where the coal was stored.
Yes, but it isn't being mined much because it's getting very expensive to
do so. It's still being mined for industrial uses like steelmaking and
for the occasional pizzeria but it's not cost-effective to burn by a long
shot today.
North Korea got it worst.... back in the early part of the last century
the industrial base in Korea was all in the North because of the extensive
coal fields up there. Even after the war, the North Koreans used coal in
a lot of industrial processes that weren't seen anywhere else where
petroleum and gas were available (which is why the national obsession with vinylon came about). And they continued running coal-fired steam locomotives well into the 1990s for the same reason. But now coal supplies are drying
up and they are in a world of energy hurt on top of their world of food
hurt.
--scott
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