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Originally posted by zeitghostAnd the trains would run on time... very unfortunate for some...
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They would have switched production of German cars to Britain, and now BMW, Mercedes and Porsche would all have gone bankrupt.
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Originally posted by zeitghostSchweinhund! My very point!
But the Britisch Empire would still be intact(ish), and the German Reich would probably stretch to the Pacific... lebensraum++.
Frightening thought... there but for the grace of God & all that.
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Originally posted by zeitghostIndeed.
If only he'd listened to the wise words of that nice Lord Halifax, we'd still have an empire...
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Why! is there some major Event on the Horizon?
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Come Wednesday, I'm sure the planet will have plenty of energy to play with.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostIt probably sounds low because it is low.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Coal_fires
UK is not even on the list of top countries with most coal
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Originally posted by AtW View PostI could not be arsed to look for info but I think the paper wrongly estimated coal reserves being at 220 mln tons - this sounds way too low.
Check out this report, where the numbers are stated in a clearer manner:
Let’s repeat his calculation for the world as a whole. In 2006, the coal consumption rate was 6.3 Gt per year. Comparing this with reserves of 1600 Gt of coal, people often say “there’s 250 years of coal left”. But if we assume business as usual implies a growing consumption, we get a different answer. If the growth rate of coal consumption were to continue at 2% per year (which gives a reasonable fit to the data from 1930 to 2000), then all the coal would be gone in 2096. If the growth rate is 3.4% per year (the growth rate over the last decade), the end of business-as-usual is guaranteed to be before 2072. Not 250 years, but 60!
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/s...ok/tex/cft.pdf (pg 164).
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostYeah, that must include gasification and they qualify that by saying 'at present production rates', which are quite low. I don't know much about gasification but I gather it's quite tricky. I imagine we could keep scraping away indefinitely, but even so there doesn't appear to be much left from a once massive reserve.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostFrom your own links: "3. The strategic importance of coal is further underlined by the fact that there are over 200 years of established coal reserves at present production rates compared with only 50 or so years for oil and gas."
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From your own links: "3. The strategic importance of coal is further underlined by the fact that there are over 200 years of established coal reserves at present production rates compared with only 50 or so years for oil and gas."
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostOh add to that we no longer have a Coal Mining industry despite the fact we're sat on massive energy reserves
We currently consume about 59 million tonnes of coal a year, of which 30 million tonnes a year is mined sustainably so that it 'can provide many years of future production at present levels'. They speak about 2050.
I knew what we had left was little (I've seen similar figures from another source) but I'm still staggered at how little coal we have left. In addition to that we may have 7 billion tonnes (116 tonnes each) in old or deep mines that might be retrieved using advanced gasification techniques, but that's more speculative and not really coal. Not sure about oil. It's true that more coal and oil could and likely will be found in the UK, but the days of massive energy reserves are probably over for us.
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