If you drop the bucket, you can pick it up. It will stay good for a long time without special storage. If the train tips over, you can pick it up and put it back on. It is much less likely to evaporate or catch fire. There are many attractive things about it as a fuel.
At least some parts of the world will survive the next ice age. The US and Europe are toast.
I’ll believe that coal use is increasing after I do more research. The Chinese say they are cutting back on coal use because the air pollution is so bad. There may be some short term increase, but I think that solar will pick up especially in the tropics. Gas and oil are really cheap right now too.
Our coal companies should start exporting. or increase it, to stay in business.
But in the longer, Indian and Chinese scientists are seriously looking at whether Alvin Weinberg's work on molten-salt nuclear reactors can be scaled up to commercial scale. If it works, suddenly thorium-232--an actinide series radioactive element as common in the soil as lead!--becomes the nuclear fuel of choice, and in one fell swoop permanently end the energy crisis. We know that not only on Earth, but on the Moon and possibly Mars, the amount of thorium-232 in the ground is enough to power Earth's energy needs for effectively tens of thousands of years at current power usage rates.
Our very own who are working for them are working against us to change the world power structure
Proving, once again, that if we don’t build it somebody else will. That whole profit motive thingy...