The Future of Korea's Coal Industry

 석탄은 석유와 마찬가지로 지구의 역사상 중생대의 초목이 고온 고압으로 탄화되어 표면에 드러난 것으로 온실가스 발생을 포함한 기후 변화에 막대한 영향을 미친다.

Coal, like oil, is the result of the high temperature and high pressure carbonization of Mesozoic vegetation in Earth's history, and has a huge impact on climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions.

Recently, the Jangseong sales office in Gangwon Province closed for the last time, and as a result, the coal company had no choice but to turn its attention to other areas, such as asbestos removal.

Even now, remnants of coal mines remain in Dogye, Samcheok, Cheoram, and Yeongwol in Gangwon Province and Mungyeong in Gyeongsang Province, and a coal mine remains in Hwasun, Jeolla Province.

​While oil is now changing into an alternative energy source, coal is bound to emit more carbon dioxide than oil, and it also produces pollutants such as soot, and the impact on the human body during coal mining is bound to be greater.

Personally, I think it will be replaced by nuclear power plants, and further, nuclear fusion or small SMRs will become alternatives.

Even briquettes, represented by 19-gong-tan, are now only used for grilling meat, and charcoal such as oak has changed to charcoal grilling or steaming in kilns.

Even if explosives with strong explosive power are used to reduce damage from typhoons or tornadoes, and they disappear before civilians are harmed, somewhere on Earth, someone will inevitably be affected, whether the temperature or water temperature rises.

The greenhouse gas emission factor is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted when burning 1 kg of fuel.

Bi-tuminous coal: 2.7 ~ 3.5 kgCO₂/kg

Diesel oil: approximately 3.1 kgCO₂/kg