Disadvantages of Coal: 10 Reasons Why Coal is Terrible for the Environment

Green Coast ^ | 2/10/21 | Lisa Martin

[NorthMountain]

Because coal ash is a lot less radioactive than russian reactor puke.

The little bint that wrote this screed is ignorant.

[NorthMountain]

It's fun to inform radiation-phobes that they have radioactive potassium in their bloodstreams.

That's right. People are radioactive.

But not very.

So sleeping with a woman is generally quite safe.

But sleeping with two women can be very dangerous ...

[Waverunner]

A neighbor once gave me some coal so I tried a piece in with the wood in my pot belly stove. I had a heat exchanger on the exhaust to blow warm air and keep the house warm. The coal burned so hot the stove glowed red and it cooked the paint. I thought the house was going to burn down. We had to open the French doors to let the air blow through to cool the house down. This was a small home on Sullivans Island in SC. No more coal for me. It did contain lots of energy , and burned the wood much hotter. No need to clean the flue that year.

[BiteYourSelf]

So are Brazil nuts,but I still love ‘em.

[Gaffer]

Ours a was a really heavy cast iron potbelly.

[BBB333]

Sodium is an unstable metal that will, if dropped into water, ignite.

Chlorine is a poison.

Should they be banned?

Mix the two and you have table salt — a substance that mammals cannot live without.

Not that the nuts on the left care ‘bout that...The left actually wants to ban chlorine even though a small amount of it in water can make poisonous water safe to drink.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Fly ash is produced by coal-based power plants and carries 100 times more radiation****

I lived near coal fired plants in NW New Mexico. The fly ash could be seen for miles. Yet there were never warnings about this.
I worked in a coal fired plant in Arkansas. we had electrostatic precipitators that removed 98% of the fly ash, no scrubbers as we used very low sulfur Wyoming coal. Never a warning about radioactive dust at all.
Now that plant has Obama required scrubbers to get the last little bit of sulfur.

Anyone remember the advertisements in magazines in 1968-1972 by the electric industry against using scrubbers?
They were considered an unnecessary joke.

This sounds like fear mongering as was done in the past about “Radon” in houses and radioactive Coleman lanterns.

[GenXPolymath]

“Oak Ridge Laboratory had a publication years ago in which they said there was more energy in the uranium than there was in the coal that was burned.”

This is true even for once through PWR reactors. Then take that number and multiply it by 100x when you use the same uranium in fast breed reactors like the Russians and Chinese will be mass producing in the future. Russia has two commercial fast reactors one has been on the Caspian Sea making power, district heat and desal fresh water since the USSR times. Those two.countries are kicking our butts in reactor tech and we don’t even ha e reprocessing tech anymore so the USA can never use fast reactors.