My thoughts on coal has never been so enthusiastic untill I read a book, Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese. She opened my eye and affirmed how human history has evolved and accelerated based upon coal. Indeed she confessed it is all sad, dirty truth. Like she wrote, a few nations like Britain in the world is trying to move to clean energy development which will be free of coal and its dirty impacts on the environment and human, but the world still runs on coal for cheap and rather easier technology.
Further I wanted to take a chance of dirty city of USA, Pittsburgh for discovering what the coal is for our life. A Tour-Ed Mine is a great place to learn about coal mining. It functions as an educational place, but it truly introduces me the coal mining. Their website can tell all about 200 years old coal mine and its history inside it. With their life experience, Bob and Rich explained a decent brief about coal history and its use in USA, and technological development with health, safety, human right, labour, money and mechanical issues.
While taking the tour through tiny corridors under the earth, I really felt coldness, darkness and danger into my bones down there. How long shall we burn this fuel for warth and illumination?
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