Chloe Swarbrick on Nat's new list 'Untethered friom reality'

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coal formation under pressure over millions of years is possibly not too congruent with creationism - an asteroid blast sounds much better

Who said anything about creationism?

Lots of gold? The usual yield from a gold mine is grams/tonne. A lot of oil is burned to get that. Hydrogen has been hyped as a fuel for decades, but the problems of storage and distribution have not been solved yet. It's not very effective as a fuel, either...

That typical yield for gold from most mines.
Australia is doing it and it's profitable, especially with the current prices.
I agree with you about the hydrogen,  but people are trying to create a market for it, with all the greenwashing going on.
And the maori are now trying to claim ownership of it now if you please.

What is this 'forest' of which you speak?? 

Oh, you mean those things we used to have all over the planet until we decided to use them for fuel & building & stuff, & dug out the older ones which provided coal because we could use it for stuff - & then we realised how fabulously, obscenely wealthy some of us could become by using all of it...

I believe there might still be one or two...possibly in those remote tree museums. Under heavy guard..

Are you aware that the earth had much more carbon in the atmosphere millions of years ago?
Lots of forests grew vigoriously as a result of the high co2 too.
Then various events such as volcanic eruptions, asteroids etc wiped out forests and they get buried and turn to coal over millions of years.

You know all that swamp Kauri up north was flattened by taupos eruption.
Given enough time and that would turn to coal too.

That post was fairly tongue in cheek...however there's no getting away from the akward fact that our planet is very over populated, with all that that involves. And the plain fact is that we have made one hell of a mess of our planet, which is badly in need of cleaning up. 
If we haven't left it too late...