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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by newpavlov on Sunday September 29, 2024 @11:26PM (#41693254)
>Coal is finite, a resources stored away over a tremendous period of time, much of it burned in about a century

Sure, it's finite, but we will run out of oil and natural gas much faster than of coal. There are centuries worth of known economically viable coal reserves. Even more, if we count low-quality lignite and peat reserves.

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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by DrScientist on Monday September 30, 2024 @05:36AM (#41695246)
Do those 'centuries' include the large increases in power demands across the world, ( as the wider world develops ) and the requirement to replace the missing oil and gas when they run out?
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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by Filligree on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:58AM (#41697154)
People would choke to death before we could use that much coal, so I doubt that will matter. It’s effectively infinite: We have access to more than we will ever want to use.
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