A Brief Note On The Industrial Heritage Of Coal Industry

When asked to think of coal mining, what comes to mind? A mountain with a hole cut into the side of it with a set of railroad tracks disappearing into it? Maybe an old mine car or two full of some rocks or coal, with a pickaxe and shovel leaning against it. A few guys with hard hats covered in a black powder coming walking out of the mine pushing a car or two full of coal. The technology has advanced but the process is basically still the same as well as the outcome. Coal is retrieved from underground and taken to factories to be burnt to create electricity or to fuel the steel mills.

Coal: A Human History was written by Barbara Freese to focus on the history of coal and how mankind has used it as part of their lifestyle. Ever since the times when early nomads used the slash-and-burn method, coal has been around acting as jewelry for the Romans and as fuel for peasants and the noble class in Britain. Coal was in such high demand that many inventions were utilized for the convenience of retrieving it from intolerable conditions such as vacuums and the construction of more efficient underground tunnels. The book gives insight of how this small stone has been so vital to humans that they were able to adapt to the ways coal best functions.

China produces half of the world’s coal, and 70% of china’s energy is produced by burning coal, about the same as Australia. China has burned about 3.8 Billion tons of before 2011, and the rest of the world has burnt 4.3. Coal burning produced about five billion tons of carbon dioxide in china in 2004.

Domestic ,agriculture ,and industry are growing each year rapidly (Doc C). Coal is one of china's biggest malfunction a huge water usage (Doc D). Agriculture uses a ton of water (Doc C).Domestic, Agriculture,and industry are growing each from 1980 to 2011 it has grow 450 billion cubic meters. Coal is one of the greatest malfunction lots of money from it and it keeps grown the are going to keep using more and more water. Because coal uses humongous amount of water.

It produces a great deal of our electricity; however, we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the implications. As Goodell notes on the first page, “We love our hamburgers, but we’ve never seen the inside of a slaughterhouse.” Isn’t that the truth? When we fuel up our cars, we don’t think (much) about the ramifications of our oil dependence. When we flip a light switch, we do not associate that with the coal-driven mountaintop removals in West Virginia. In this book, “BIG COAL” Jeff describes Goodell thrusts those associations right in your face. He covers the history of the industry, tells the stories of the people in and around the business, and while most of the book is based on U.S.-happenings, he does spend a chapter in China. We would imagine the coal industry was none too pleased with Big Coal because it paints a really ugly picture of the industry. Goodell contrasts the coal industry with the individuals whose lives have been negatively impacted by coal in one way or another. He details corruption and politics that allowed the industry to delay implementation of pollution control equipment. And on a big picture level, he argues that continued usage of coal poses a serious threat to the earth’s

When I go to my home where I grew up it is all electrical produced and the main producer of that electricity is from coal a fossil fuel. In that area coal is one of the primary exports of that area. (Administration,

Coal power is the cheapest fuel to power the ever growing population with Australian mining industry still putting in billions of dollars into a vast amount of coal projects never the less coal power is a fossil fuel, a fuel which takes hundreds of year to form so the future of coal is undetermined. Coal is a reliable power source but one of the many concern with coal is the mining process used to remove it from the ground. Ecological effects are developing worries for the industry, with the carbon emissions possibly contributing to global warming.

A common underpinning for industrialization in 18th century Britain and modern day China is that both took advantage of a large abundance of natural resources. As Gerard Turnbull (Canals, coal and regional growth during the industrial revolution) and Robert Allen have argued, cheap coal served as a competitive advantage for Britain as they entered into the industrial revolution. Britain had an abundance of cheap coal (largely due to lower transportation costs that favored the lowest cost producers) that supported a high wage economy and made macro-inventions and technological advancements more cost effective. In comparison, modern China, has taken their consumption of natural resources to another level, and has become the world’s top consumer of fossil fuels. China was able to keep natural resource costs relatively low over the last few decades in part because the government has prioritized the development of an extensive highway system to connect the natural resource-rich

Yancoal is a competitive coal exporter in Asian markets. In their vision, strong demand of coal in developing countries can elevate amount of production for company in the future. For instance, China has a huge coal reserves. Proportion of coal in China's primary energy consumption is as high as 70%, which means it is twice as much as the global average. Due to rapidly development of heavy industry and resource price rising, China's coal production

The industrial revolution impacted the coal industry in many good and bad way’s. before the industrial revolution workers in the coal mines (could include women and children) had it very hard, they had to work mining seams of coal in crevasses only 75cm tall. They didn’t really have and easy way of transporting coal to the surface so children were expected to carry 150kg of coal to the surface and do this a lot of times during a day. What also mad mining coal harder was that ground water from rain would flood the shafts and make the coal mining a lot harder, every year there was a lot of people that drowned from too much water in the shafts. Another danger was that a gas called fire damp which was highly explosive would be ignited off a spark

Throughout the century British coal had become increasingly costly and difficult to mine. Nationalization in 1948 had not altered this. Indeed, there was a case for saying that lack of government investment since that date had added to the problem. For some time Britain had been importing coal from abroad. With the exception of few pits producing particular types of coal, British mines by the 1970s were running at loss.

The Face of Decline proceeds with the chronological coverage from the start of the mines/mining industry to the decline of the mines/mining industry. First, the book gave a very clear and concise description of the different topics that would be discussed. Also, they discuss how many people’s lives were affected from the mining industry. According to the many different details listed throughout the book, the book focused generally on the importance of the coal mines, the employees, and the hard times that everyone went through during the rising and declining on the mining regions. Next, the book focuses on how being in the mines led to many health problems and even death. Many health problems led to “black lung” which is caused from inhaling the fumes and dust from being in the coal mines. The integration of the personal input and interviews about how their lives were directly affected by the coal mining industry was a very effective strategy.

Coal, a mineral I have discussed previously, is necessary to our everyday lives. Coal is an incredible source of energy; it heats our houses and buildings, and also fuels stoves. You may often wonder where this extremely useful mineral comes from. Coal does not just appear; it needs to be mined through a process which results in our being able to utilize it. Coal mining is fairly inexpensive, is carried out on a large scale and can be mined in either underground or surface mines.

Based on the analysis of interpretation methods in two museums, it could be found that the position of coal industry is different in two countries. In the UK, selectively memories and a sense of nostalgia about the generation of coal industry in the UK appear in the museum. On the contrary, the national coal museum tends to represent that although the energy structure has been started to change, coal resource still plays an irreplaceable role in China. To analyze why the difference of interpretation appears in two national coal museums, it is necessary to examine the past and the present conditions of coal industry in the UK and China.

In China, industrial heritage development is just at the beginning stage. By the year of 2001, the first industrial heritage was included in the List of National Key Cultural Relics Protection. The protection of industrial heritage of coal seems to be a new concept. Coal resource is still a very essential energy for Chinese economic development currently. However, in the future, it would be replaced by clear and new energy. Industrial heritage of coal will be the representative of rapid development of economy