How easily accessible is that coal to people whose civilization has collapsed, taking most of the industrial machinery with it? (That’s a genuine question. Naively, it seems like the easiest-to-get-at bits would have been mined out first, leaving the harder bits. How much harder they are, and how big a problem that would be, I have no idea.)
How easily accessible is that coal to people whose civilization has collapsed, taking most of the industrial machinery with it? (That’s a genuine question. Naively, it seems like the easiest-to-get-at bits would have been mined out first, leaving the harder bits. How much harder they are, and how big a problem that would be, I have no idea.)
It’s probably fair to say that some of the low hanging fossil fuel fruit have been taken.