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To: combjelly who wrote (258686)	11/6/2005 11:45:15 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572099

I just wanted to point out that just possibly, North Korea didn't want to burn coal for the same reasons WE don't want to burn coal. The "black air" crack refers back to London in the 1800's, when ALL they burned was coal. The sky was black. " John Ruskin, in the 1860s, referred to it as "That great foul city of London, -- rattling, growling, smoking, stinking -- ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore. . . ." Earlier, Shelley had written "Hell is a city much like London -- A Populous and smoky city" (the famous nineteenth-century London fogs were the result of the air pollution brought about by the burning of coal on an enormous scale)."

To: combjelly who wrote (258686)	11/7/2005 12:38:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572099

Never seen that term before. But coal-fired plants aren't common here. The best we can do is some brown coal, which usually isn't economic. Can you elucidate? Have you never read the stories about Pittsburgh after WW II? The streetlamps would come on at midday because the air was thick with soot. In Romania in a heavy coal burning area, the ground is/was covered with black soot......it was an environmental disaster. Of course, I think it depends which coal you are burning......bituminous or anthracite. ted