It’s the worst of all the fossil fuels. They all suck, but coal sucks the most. Expensive and dangerous to mine. Requires a buttload. Releases all sort of nasty pollutants. Doesn’t fully burn to CO2. And is slow to ramp so it’s only really good for a baseload.
If coal wasn’t used for iron smelting, it would have never been used to for power generation.
I honestly assumed a ton of ‘waste’ mercury just got dumped into the ocean before we knew that was bad. Which I guess is sort of what happened, it just went through the atmosphere first.
I still can’t believe coal is the reason there is mercury in fish. Fuck coal.
IKR? That was a surprising fact to me.
It’s the worst of all the fossil fuels. They all suck, but coal sucks the most. Expensive and dangerous to mine. Requires a buttload. Releases all sort of nasty pollutants. Doesn’t fully burn to CO2. And is slow to ramp so it’s only really good for a baseload.
If coal wasn’t used for iron smelting, it would have never been used to for power generation.
I honestly assumed a ton of ‘waste’ mercury just got dumped into the ocean before we knew that was bad. Which I guess is sort of what happened, it just went through the atmosphere first.