EESA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oil Sands, Biogenic Substance
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Eroi doesn"t stay the same: oil used to be 100:1, now is 15:1. Harder to extract: oil sands 5:1. In mountaintop removal they blow up a mountain and cut off the top, pick out all the coal, instead of getting a little bit out of a time, you just dig straight down. In freshwater sources there isn"t much sulphur content, you can investigate what is in your coal and if its high sulphur coal you won"t burn it: 2 things related to clean coal. What are you doing to stop the pollutants from getting into the atmosphere. Black lung disease related to coal dust (like a smoker gone wild for 500 years)
