It occurred to me that coal might not have occurred to
@Ignicious because it was never as popular for domestic use over there. Nor were there many mines, and apparently most of the ones that were were in the remote north. Whereas it was huge over here.
I don't remember this far back, but I remember horse-drawn carts delivering sacks of coal.
Some of the troughs still survive from that age, in rural areas.
With that being said
This summer, students from Norwegian University of Science and Technology analyzed data from 600 wells drilled on the Norwegian Shelf of the North Sea. They calculated that there are 3000 billion tons of coal off the Norwegian coast.
www.resilience.org
This summer, students from Norwegian University of Science and Technology analyzed data from 600 wells drilled on the Norwegian Shelf of the North Sea. They calculated that there are 3000 billion tons of coal off the Norwegian coast. Most of the reserves are located at Haltenbanken. This compares to today’s proven and recoverable world reserves of 900 billion tons of coal.
So if we ever get off this cockroach-smoothie, 15-minute city wind turbine stuff there'll be work to be done!