Obscure Research Blog July Archive

Coal reserves are either getting harder and/or thinner

Here is one more reason that we need more Unusual Research into alternate energy devices:

On page 53 of the June 2007 issue of Coal Age Magazine, Philip Smith, global product line manager of Joy Mining Machinery says:

"In the U.S., it seems that the coal reserves are either getting harder or they are getting thinner."

If management of the worlds leader of coal mining machinery is saying that coal is becoming to hard to get, then it is clearly time to move onto other sources of energy, and leave coal where it belongs, in the ground.