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re: Restarting Coal Mines that have been shut down
Posted on 4/12/25 at 9:56 am to Mr Cell Phone
Posted on 4/12/25 at 9:56 am to Mr Cell Phone
quote:
Restarting Coal Mines that have been shut down
Do you have a clue how this business even works?
#1 Mountain Top removal has replaced deep mines
3 guys with very large bulldozers is all you need (and the trucker top haul it away)
#2 Machinery has replaced humans
Mine workers in the millions a century ago has been reduced to mere thousands today.
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Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:02 am to Cheese Grits
quote:
Mine workers in the millions a century ago has been reduced to mere thousands today.
Which is why re-opening mines will be a major problem.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:34 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
Which is why re-opening mines will be a major problem.
Exactly!
What we are being told sounds good but there is no really to the words
Even if we doubled the mining jobs in the USA we are talking maybe 10K jobs, not hundred of thousands jobs.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:44 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Did you even read what he wrote:
Mine workers in the millions a century ago has been reduced to mere thousands today.
Which is why re-opening mines will be a major problem.
quote:
Do you have a clue how this business even works?
#1 Mountain Top removal has replaced deep mines
3 guys with very large bulldozers is all you need (and the trucker top haul it away)
#2 Machinery has replaced humans
Mine workers in the millions a century ago has been reduced to mere thousands today.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:46 am to Mr Cell Phone
Wouldn't most of the coal moving forward come from large western strip mining operations? Less dangerous and much more efficient than burrowing under a mountain? Is underground mining obsolete, cost efficient?
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:49 am to Diamondawg
quote:
Did you even read what he wrote:
Yes, Its too simplified, and you folks are delusional thinking you will find the workers.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:54 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
Yes, Its too simplified, and you folks are delusional thinking you will find the workers.
quote:You need to watch You Tube and some of the monster equipment they use in mining.
Do you have a clue how this business even works?
#1 Mountain Top removal has replaced deep mines
3 guys with very large bulldozers is all you need (and the trucker top haul it away)
#2 Machinery has replaced humans
Mine workers in the millions a century ago has been reduced to mere thousands today.
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:56 am to Diamondawg
quote:
You need to watch You Tube and some of the monster equipment they use in mining.
Ive seen it, in person. We have several mines here.
It takes more than "3 guys on bulldozers."
Posted on 4/13/25 at 8:05 am to Mr Cell Phone
The problem with coal is that coal fired power plants were immensely favored via policy by Jimmah Carter, then reached their life expectancy between 2010 and 2020. It is far less expensive and quicker to build a natural gas combined cycle power plant without even considering permitting.
It would be great to export a lot of coal to the EU where they don't have abundant and cheap natural gas
It would be great to export a lot of coal to the EU where they don't have abundant and cheap natural gas
Posted on 4/13/25 at 9:31 am to Victor R Franko
Modern mining = removing the mountain not tunneling or blowing the top earth off and scraping the coal underneath. Both are very hard on the land and saddle the state containing the mine with lots of defaults and government stepping in to make the land usable again (very expensive).
Posted on 4/13/25 at 10:20 am to Mr Cell Phone
You forgot " it's really hard work".
Posted on 4/13/25 at 5:21 pm to Mr Cell Phone
quote:
I aspect you will
You WHAT?
Posted on 4/13/25 at 7:51 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Or the drive thru
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