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Old 07-03-2010, 05:47 PM   #51 (permalink)
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And then there's coal: Peak coal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Although individual countries' production have peaked - Britain in 1913 and Germany in 1958 - world coal production will continue to rise for a very long time, though obviously not forever. I'm more worried about what the CO2 levels will be like if we burn all the hundreds gigatons of coal we have available. Leaving coal in the ground is just about the most stable form of carbon sequestration imaginable, and I think we should do just that.

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