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Originally Posted by Xist
Neil, how much fossil fuels did humans burn in 1850 compared to now? This says there were 1.2 billion people. So, 168 years ago 1.2 billion people started burning fossil fuels?
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...tml#post578893
https://www.ecowatch.com/chatham-hou...288764699.html
This says that coal has about the same energy content per pound as wood, but has half the volume. However that article describes how coal is more convenient in other ways.
Those sources say that coal is not any dirtier than wood, just more convenient, and that convenience is responsible for global warming? |
Not to butt in,but in England,where the Industrial Revolution began,they had cut down most of their forest already.Much of it to make glass for the nouveau riche manor homes.
You can't build houses and canals and other things out of coal,but you can burn coal,and you can burn it to make bricks,which you can build houses out of.
Wood use current photosynthesis and coal uses paleophotosynthetic carbon,which was otherwise locked up in the coal.
The carbon from combustion of coal is part of the atmospheric carbon load.