[JustUhThought]

One major perspective this and similar articles do not consider is all the non energy uses of coal and petroleum. Burning petroleum for ebergy is hardly it's only use. Look around you at all the plastics. Even coal has great promise as a building material. Think carbon fiber and, well all the different permutations of materials that carbon rich ore can be made into.

[WorldMaker]

A Diamond Age does seem like a hopeful solution to the problem, if we could rationally harvest the and convert it to carbon fibers and diamonds rather than fill our air and oceans with so much excess CO2. I wonder if we are that rational, though.

[mkj]

Pretty sure just burning it is an order of magnitude more than other uses. Coal for building sounds exciting though?

[JustUhThought]

No doubt it is now. I was speaking as to future uses.