Anthracite
Today's Posting & Our Daily Challenge
Go old-school today and make a photograph that either features an old subject or simply looks old., post it then Tag it with #TP358
Make a photograph of something that captures a small bit the flavor of where you live or your culture., post it then Tag it with #TP359
INDIGENOUS is the topic for Thursday 1st November 2012
Sure glad I had my hand fired coal stove the last couple days. Sandy the Storm knocked out our power, but we were nice and warm!
Thanks to Anthracite Coal:
Coal is a four-letter word. These days, it's hard to even mention its name without bringing divergent points of view to a boil. The first recorded anti-coal legislation dates back to 1306 when British Paliament, disgusted by the coal-fired soot and smog filling London's streets, outlawed its use. Seven hundred years later, its carbon-and-sulphur laced emissions and environmentally disasterous mining techniques still put it at the top of every environmentalist's shit list. On the other hand, it powered the industrial revolution, continues to be a cheap and available form of power, and it's abundance in North America actually spared countless acres of forest from the furnaces of industrial America. The irony is that it is a form of solar power: Photosynthesized solar energy stored as carbon by plants millions of years ago.
There are lots of varieties of coal. There is Anthracite, Bituminous, Lignite, Blind coal, Kilkenny coal, and Crow coal just to name a few.
But Anthracite is the hardest, purest, cleanest and longest burning coal. It is the highest grade of coal, and the most expensive. Because of it's superior quality it was the preferred fuel for America's home heating and industrial needs during much of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Anthracite
Today's Posting & Our Daily Challenge
Go old-school today and make a photograph that either features an old subject or simply looks old., post it then Tag it with #TP358
Make a photograph of something that captures a small bit the flavor of where you live or your culture., post it then Tag it with #TP359
INDIGENOUS is the topic for Thursday 1st November 2012
Sure glad I had my hand fired coal stove the last couple days. Sandy the Storm knocked out our power, but we were nice and warm!
Thanks to Anthracite Coal:
Coal is a four-letter word. These days, it's hard to even mention its name without bringing divergent points of view to a boil. The first recorded anti-coal legislation dates back to 1306 when British Paliament, disgusted by the coal-fired soot and smog filling London's streets, outlawed its use. Seven hundred years later, its carbon-and-sulphur laced emissions and environmentally disasterous mining techniques still put it at the top of every environmentalist's shit list. On the other hand, it powered the industrial revolution, continues to be a cheap and available form of power, and it's abundance in North America actually spared countless acres of forest from the furnaces of industrial America. The irony is that it is a form of solar power: Photosynthesized solar energy stored as carbon by plants millions of years ago.
There are lots of varieties of coal. There is Anthracite, Bituminous, Lignite, Blind coal, Kilkenny coal, and Crow coal just to name a few.
But Anthracite is the hardest, purest, cleanest and longest burning coal. It is the highest grade of coal, and the most expensive. Because of it's superior quality it was the preferred fuel for America's home heating and industrial needs during much of the 19th and 20th Centuries.