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To: Eric who wrote (23919)	10/20/2010 1:48:19 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

There's not enough coal in the world to keep China running "economically" beyond about 2050 or 60. 1 - Recoverable coal reserves would at present rates of consumption last over 100 years. Consumption is growing, but use can continue without continuing to grow. Also recoverable coal reserves are based on what's currently known, and would go up with new discoveries, new technologies and techniques, and with higher prices for coal. 2 - If coal really is going to run out around mid-century than your idea of China "winning" doesn't work out so well, since that's mainly what they rely on, and will continue to rely on for some time. You can't scale fossil fuels forever. Again with the attacks on straw men. No one is saying they can be scaled forever.