<story><title>The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won’t Cut It</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/the-cheap-energy-revolution-is-here-and-coal-won-t-cut-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad we&amp;#x27;re leaving a lot of coal in the ground, but for different reasons. If society as a whole ever slides backwards (due to global war, horrific disease, etc), it leaves a lot of fairly easily extractable energy for the future generation that survives. Dark way of looking at it, I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>There are actually things like peat moss[1], which are a semi-renewable energy, which I see being far more useful in a &amp;quot;dark age&amp;quot; scenario.&lt;p&gt;Not to say, it&amp;#x27;s not good to keep coal in the ground for the same reason. Just thought I would share another tid-bit lol&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sphagnum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sphagnum&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won’t Cut It</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/the-cheap-energy-revolution-is-here-and-coal-won-t-cut-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad we&amp;#x27;re leaving a lot of coal in the ground, but for different reasons. If society as a whole ever slides backwards (due to global war, horrific disease, etc), it leaves a lot of fairly easily extractable energy for the future generation that survives. Dark way of looking at it, I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>accountyaccount</author><text>Once we&amp;#x27;re saturated enough with solar I can&amp;#x27;t imagine there being an easier ad-hoc way to generate energy for small groups in the post-apocalypse. I think you&amp;#x27;re right though that coal is the ultimate society at-scale fallback.</text></comment>