Also burning it is heavily subsidized by most governments, because the cost from the massive damage it will cause our civilization is just discounted as a "future generation problem".
First I understand this is sarcasm but I'm going to rain on your parade anyway.
Coal itself is made from ancient forests that have died and been buried underground for millions of years usually it happens in sedimentary basins but this is an oversimplification for time saving.
Never heard of a coal chute but from Google it looks like a thing in your basement? Houses in UK and Ireland don't have basements so I guess that's why it's new to me.
Here the coal truck goes around and drops off these big 25kg bags of coal and you (or the delivery guy) pour them into an outdoor coal bunker (big plastic box). Most houses would have one.
I just had a conversation with ChatGPT about it, there’s different types of coal, some of which are worth more (up to 2-4X for steel types and stuff) and ultimately, it’s fairly compact so a cubic meter is about 1.1-1.5 metric tonnes, and in that perspective, a single miner could get 5-20 tonnes per day, which even factoring transportation could still be slightly profitable. If you are using open mines and heavy mining equipment you can get many many tonnes out at once
Well, a normal human wouldn't declare they've chatted with chatGPT, and IMO chatting with a generative AI to find out concrete information of any kind is asking to be presented with misinformation at best.
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u/No-Mail-8565 8d ago
I was thinking about that. How tf can that be profitable. I buy a bag here for 2 dollars.