I am not for coal burning. It puts out more carbon than any other fossil fuel. Plus, even the way it is harvested is harmful: strip mining, which is easier to do than underground mining and so is becoming more prevalent, destroys huge amounts of land. Forfisimum's comment that "coal and nuclear are our salvation" makes little sense to me. I could maybe understand the nuclear part, since nuclear puts out virtually no carbon and so is an ideal fuel for combatting global warming, but coal has the downsides of nuclear without its benefits: a coal power plant puts out more radiation than an equally-sized nuclear power plant.
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