Re: How to use offshore coal reserves ?


Alex Terrell wrote:
> Coal is so cheap we can't even keep mines open in Britain. let alone
> make new ones under the seabed. There's more than enough accessible
> coal to create a catastrophic level of global warming, without having
> to revert to sea bed coal.

The answer to all non-transportation energy needs is already at hand

(1) Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector arrays to create steam from solar
energy to drive a generator (most likely photovoltaic is a dead-end
alley).

(2) Ground level onshore and off shore wind-farms and if feasible
tethered flying wind turbines that operate at high altitudes

(3) use fossil fuels to back up the intermittent sun/wind sources until
economical energy storage technologies become feasible.

It is deadly to the future of humankind to be still thinking of burning
things on a large scale for energy.

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