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Coal is not dead. The coal industry may go dormant (we are still a long way from that), but the coal will still be there, at least 200 years of accessible reserves. Advances in underground coal gasification techniques could extend those reserves by several hundred years, by facilitating exploitation of deep coal and low coal.
While the source may change, the hydrocarbon fuel paradigm will likely be with us for a very, very long time.
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