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To: Eric who wrote (32924)	7/2/2012 4:17:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 86352

The video of <Want to see the coal dust blowing off a coal train? Click on this image to see a video of a coal train in British Columbia...you will see HUGE amounts of dust blowing off into a scenic river basin:> showed nothing much in the way of air pollution or scenic river basin pollution. The train was very impressive though. What huge economies of scale people can achieve these days. 100 years ago, it would have taken lifetimes of excavation to get that amount of coal out of the ground, let alone transport it. The coal dust was blowing only on the corner and not particularly much of it. Not enough or regularly enough to put a coating of black even close to the tracks. In Antwerp, my car used to be coated with a fine soot layer due to diesel exhausts and home furnaces. That was annoying. That "scenic river basin" has coal train drivers to enjoy it and not many others. The coal goes to combustion and thereby to providing CO2 for plants. What pollution do you mean? It all looked very clean to me, with a bit of dust blowing off right on that corner where the high winds were obviously particularly compressed and blowing hard. But then, I have worked in actually very dirty conditions doing real work. Maybe you have never done much to see what actual pollution looks like. Take a trip to Beijing or just ask Google for some photos. It's hideously disgusting. That coal dust even looked as though it might have been added by careful pixelation AFTER the video was made. One can't trust Alarmists to be honest with their representations of reality. The "writer" who had "aching lungs" from passing coal trains in Russia would be hard pressed to get a similar problem there. He'd have to risk being run over by the train to get more than a hint of coal dust up his nose. Mqurice

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