r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 8d ago

Video Coal mining

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u/Activetransport 8d ago

Makes you want to give nuclear power a chance

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u/LostInSpaceTime2002 8d ago

Uranium is also mined.

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u/Steve-Bikes 8d ago

Yea, but the amount mined is way less than 1%.

Greenhouse gas emissions for coal are also around a hundred thousand times larger as well.

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u/Steve-Bikes 7d ago

That's still a lot less than the amount of ore mine for coal

I was responding to someone who is downplaying the annual mining and consumption of 7.9 Billion metric tons of coal, so I felt a bit of perspective was needed.

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u/agileata 8d ago

You don't know ow what in situ leeching is huh?

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u/Drewdc90 8d ago

How much material is mined to get that uranium though? Not saying your wrong but I feel that might change the perspective

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u/agileata 8d ago

And to think we can hang glass that just gives us power for 35 years and yet we still allow this....