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		patrickgzill on Aug 1, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens when coal is gone? There are huge seams of coal in China that have been burning for hundreds of years. In Centralia, PA there is still a lot of coal around even though the coal fire there has been burning for some 40 years. We are not going to run out of coal for hundreds of years...

MrRage on Aug 1, 2010 [–]

But are these coal seams burning as fast as if you mined them and burned it for heat, electricity, etc?

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