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>>58392724
I just care about the future of coal mining. For me, it would be a paradise.
And who says the cons outweigh the pros? Nietzsche and Spengler didn't think so.
Spengler said, based on his reading of Nietzsche, that
>Few societies can survive a long war, but no society can survive a long peace.
War is needed to cleanse a society of peaceful decadence and greed and unseriousness. War sharpens focus, puts real priorities first, reminds us that the natural world of life and death is the foundation of everything, not the abstract world of theory. Maybe the West's problems, like its degradation, lack of respect in people, desire for easy lives and free money, and low birth rates would be solved by a Great War.

>>58379024
Yes, I'm aware of all that. I just like talking about coals, coking and thermal coals.

>>58344361
I hope for very high natural gas prices. That way, utilities will turn to coal.

>>58284526
The UMWA might just need to go. I believe in rights and good pay and protections for workers, especially highly skilled workers (who've always had labor organizations, going back to ancient and medieval guilds), but the union mines just don't seem to be faring well these days, at least in coal. Gas pipeliners are unionized and doing well, but that's because gas is taking coal's market share. Oil workers are unionized, largely, and doing well too, but they're not under assault like coal miners are.
I was talking with a friend in Colorado and he was saying it's probably inevitable that western U.S. mines go heavily Hispanic in the near future, so I should be learning Spanish, which I will.
The days of coal miners making 100k+ per year may be ending. It might be back to how it was in the 1920s, maybe equivalent to a 50k per year job in the future.
It's sad, but the green fucks and the natural gas subsidies have driven coal mining to this point. The only way to save coal may be to make it a lowly profession once again.
Giving this news would get me absolutely roasted by any audience of American coal miners, but soon it might be obvious that they need to hear it and then decide their futures accordingly.

>>58209577
The physical work in coal mining is probably harder, like timbering (posting and cribbing), which requires lifting 80 to 100+ pound logs and walking them maybe 20-30 feet to set them for roof control, and doing this for hours on end. This is especially rough in a lower roof mine (say, 5-6 feet) where you have to duck walk constantly. Also, it's rough in a hot, humid mine like an Illinois Basin coal mine in the summer. I've sweated probably a gallon per shift doing this stuff in the past.
The machine operating may be a bit harder in coal since few machines have a cab and you're standing all day (shuttle cars/coal haulers excluded -- you get to sit).
The technicality or brain exertion of the work may be equal, who knows! Lots to be aware of in either kind of mine, coal or gold.

>>58130905
>And there are other ways to meet demand economically. Implementing energy efficiency measures to reduce electricity consumption is relatively easy. Speeding up the construction of transmission lines to connect electricity production to the places that need power most would also go a long way. So, too, would slowing the retirement of nuclear energy. In technical, economic, and climate terms, these solutions may be ideal. But getting the politics and policies necessary is more complicated.

>“People here are all expecting energy demand to continue growing, and that fossil is going to be the logical solution,” says Jon Creyts, CEO of RMI, an environmental non-profit, noting that in fact renewable energy is cheaper and increasingly available. “There's a bit of a walking over a cliff mentality.”

These articles drive me batty sometimes. The only reason "renewables" are cheaper is because of subsidies. Governments give massive subsidies, renewables become cheaper, then studies are done to confirm that renewables are indeed cheaper.
It's such a gimmick and so dishonest. These global warming grifters are some of the biggest liars in the world today.

>>57465957
Could you make a Pepe/Apu in a coal mine?

Starting the new job in upper Appalachian coal fields next week (that term means Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia). Will be managing a number of mines.
Cool beans

Coal bump

This coal porn is so good I had to coom!