Bituminous coal

As you know coal is an energy source. You may ask the question: How is coal mined and how it is used? Coal mining is very big in south east Queensland, the biggest is New Acland mine out near Oakey. later in my report I will be talking about the New Acland project and what they are doing to rehabilitate mined land. I will be telling you about how coal is formed and mined. One form of Coal mining is an open cut mine. Open-cut mines are a way of mining with high explosives with the assistance of…

Hello Mr. Wolfe, I have written to you in a genu matter. The matter of the usage of nuclear energy in our state should be stopped. I understand nuclear power is currently playing a large role in our environment. However, we should stop using nuclear power plants for many reasons. Some of the reasons include pollution for aquatic life and their high cost. Those are just the tip of the iceberg Mr. Wolfe, and as your advisor, I’m only trying to help our state. Mr. Wolfe, there are copious…

D & H Mining, Inc. employed me for two months as an off side (return side) roof bolter at the No. 3 mine. Danny Tucker owns and operates the No. 3 mine and Gerald Ball is the section foreman. No. 3 mine produces coal with a continuous miner. The day shift worked from 7 am to 5 p.m., 10 hour shifts Monday through Thursday and eight hours on Fridays and every other Saturday. I carried the Personal Dust Monitor (PDM), when the company conducted dust surveys to measure the respirable dust…

The Department of Energy started to fully control the energy of the U.S. on October 1st, 1977. It has been dealing in the history of the United States since the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was another name for the U.S. creating atomic weapons during World War 2. After the war, the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 created the Atomic Energy Commission, which took over the complex of the Manhattan Engineer District. In the mid-1970s, the needs of the people were changing, which led to the…

With seven billion people living on earth, are we inevitably going to run out of some of our most necessary natural resources? Energy is something which we rely on all the time. Coal and petroleum are what produce the fossil fuels which allow us to live our life as we are used to it. These fossil fuels are however a limited resource. They do not reproduce at the rate we are consuming them - and they won’t for many millions of years. Renewable energy, sadly, is an expensive alternative and only…

policies remain unchanged, world energy demands will increase by 50% between now and 2030. Considering the rapidly depleting supply of coal and oil, a viable long-term replacement must be established to compensate for this substantial gap. Nuclear power is the future way forward. The reasons are manifold. Firstly, nuclear energy has the greatest potential…

Americans, and the rest of the world, should switch to nuclear power because it produces great amounts of energy with little to no waste, is constantly available and reusable, and nuclear energy is safe. Nuclear energy provides great amounts of energy with very little amounts of nuclear material. In the documentary “Pandora’s Promise” Leonard Koch(died on the fifteenth of may in 2015) said that “one pound of uranium, which is about the size of my fingertip, would produce the same amount of…

When you hear Nuclear, what do you think? Does it have a negative connotation? Well if you are like most people, it does have a negative connotation? When people think about nuclear energy they think about Chernobyl or Fukushima. Heck when people hear Nuclear they think about weapons of mass destruction. People write off nuclear energy because its not safe, not cost effective, and not needed. But rather than make a coherent gut feeling we must come to a better informed decision about nuclear…

Nuclear. What was the first thing that came to mind when you read the word nuclear, nuclear missiles, radiation, everything bad in this world? I bet you didn't think of a revolutionary power source that could help some of the world's problems like Power, Carbon emissions, Clean water, Jobs and local economy. Nuclear power is a very controversial topic, Both sides have very strong opinions and evidence to prove that nuclear power will save or destroy the world.Nuclear power plants and nuclear…

Nuclear power, we have all heard of it. Or most of us have, nuclear power is created by nuclear fission (“Nuclear Power for the 21sr Century”). The process of uranium isotopes in a controlled environment being split. As you know any action takes energy and when energy is being used or changed a by-product is made. In most cases it is thermal energy, which is heat energy. That is exactly what is happening in a nuclear power plant. When one uranium isotope is split a chain reaction is created in…