The Industrial Revolution was driven by fossil fuels, particularly coal. And it is because of the Industrial Revolution that we enjoy all the luxuries we have at our disposal today.
It was the Industrial Revolution which led to the invention of new machines, the development of the factory system and to the development of the steam engine, the telegraph, the internal combustion engine and the jet engine. It even led to the development of schools.
Bring back coal, Dr. Vernon Coleman says. It is a reliable and abundant energy resource that provides heat and employment.
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The Industrial Revolution revolved entirely around fossil fuels. It was coal and oil which changed our economy from an agrarian, handicraft one to an economy dominated by industry and machine manufacture. It was the Industrial Revolution which led to the use of iron and steel, instead of wood and, eventually, to the introduction of new energy sources such as electricity. It was the Industrial Revolution which led to the invention of new machines (such as the spinning jenny), the development of the factory system and to the development of the steam engine, the telegraph, the internal combustion engine and the jet engine. It was the factory system, a result of the Industrial Revolution, which led to the development of schools (so that there would be somewhere for children to go while their parents worked in the factories, and so that children would grow up accustomed to a day spent working) and terraced housing (so that workers could be accommodated close to the factories where they worked).
The Industrial Revolution resulted in changes in agriculture (tractors instead of horses), political changes (workers, now paying tax, wanting votes) and enormous social changes.
The Industrial Revolution was largely confined to England, and then Britain, until 1830. It then spread to France before reaching Germany and, eventually, the USA. Now England’s great Revolution has spread to China, India and the rest of Asia. Everywhere that the Industrial Revolution went, it was built upon a supply of fossil fuels.
And coal was the first fossil fuel to change our lives.
Before mankind discovered the benefits of coal, our sources of energy were food and wood. Energy depended entirely on stuff we could grow – using our own muscles to do the digging and the sowing.
When men started digging coal out of the ground, they started using energy sources that were already in existence – and had been formed generations before. Coal, oil and other fossil fuels are just what the name says: fossil fuels. They are created when ancient bits of matter are steadily crushed by billions of tonnes of rock. Despite modern myths, it takes millions of years for fossil fuels to form.
Coal was being burnt for heating and cooking in China 4,000 years ago. It was used in mediaeval Europe too, though it didn’t overtake wood as a fuel because it had to be mined and transported – both of which required a good deal of effort and energy.
By the early 17th century, English manufacturers producing iron and steel discovered that the higher temperatures possible with coal made it easy to smelt iron and work with metal.
But it was still difficult to get coal out of the ground. The biggest problem was that water tended to accumulate at the bottom of the mine shafts. In 1712, this problem was solved when Samuel Newcomen invented a simple steam engine specifically to pump water out of coal mines. And so, slowly, the industrial age was born out of the rediscovery of coal.
In 1803, an English engineer called Richard Trevithick used the improvements devised by James Watt and installed a steam engine on a carriage, intending it for use on the roads. Unfortunately, roads hadn’t yet been invented and the steam carriage wasn’t much use until George Stephenson (another Englishman) put the steam locomotive on rails. Not surprisingly, the rails he used were similar to those used in the tramways in coal mines.
Things moved swiftly after that. In the 1790s, an English engineer lit his factory with gaslights. In 1804, gas lighting was installed on the streets of London. By 1840, steam engines were being used on ships. And in 1854, coal-tar dyes were discovered and the chemical industry was born.
In 1800, the annual world coal output was 15 million tonnes. By 1900, the annual world coal output was 700 million tons and coal had transformed the world. The 19th century was the Coal Age.
We definitely need to bring back coal for those wise and fortunate citizens who have fireplaces and chimneys in their homes. (Now you know why the bastards stopped building houses with chimneys).
Coal is an excellent source of heat, but was deliberately demonised so that we would become dependent upon oil and gas. The conspirators knew darned well that these imported and limited sources of energy would cost more than homegrown coal. The oil is running out and the deliberately manufactured “war” with Russia means that oil shortages are intensified – with an appropriate rise in prices. Britain has energy supplies in the North Sea but the Government has taxed these out of existence. The plan has always been to impoverish us and freeze us to death.
I know that the air pollution caused by coal is not good but I also know that the cold (exacerbated by the deliberate blocking of the sun) will kill millions every year.
In the UK alone, around 100,000 old people will die in the coming winter because of the cold. Since they are dying because of deliberate policies, they are actually being murdered. The number injured or killed by burning coal is minute in comparison.
We need a real campaign to bring coal back. Now widely denigrated by ignorant people who believe in the global warming nonsense and who are dedicated to Net Zero, coal gave us the foundations of our modern civilisation.
There is rumoured to be enough coal for 300 years in the Welsh mines, which have been closed by the global warming enthusiasts. (Wasn’t it heart-warming to see huge armies of virtue-signalling global warming hypocrites fly into Brazil – many of them in private planes – to share the usual lies? Free Suits and Wet Willy were there, of course, though I was pleased to see that the Donald didn’t go. What a pity someone hasn’t invented a system whereby all these cultists could meet via computer without having to fly somewhere nice. They could call it Zoom. But then they wouldn’t be able to enjoy regular taxpayer-funded holidays in exciting places.)
The UK as a whole is said to have coal resources totalling 187 billion tonnes – more than enough to keep old-aged pensioners warm for a year or two. But having closed down its own coal mines (because of the global warming cultists), Britain is importing what little coal it has from other countries – including Japan. Maybe the coal is coming over on rowing boats – but I suspect that, like the wood pellets imported from the USA, it’s coming in diesel-powered ships.
It may one day occur to global warming cultists that the coal which is imported into Britain in large diesel-driving ships is less “green” than coal dug out of Welsh pits.
Come back, coal! All is forgiven. Bringing back coal would revitalise a lost industry and provide a massive amount of essential employment. And I am far more interested in looking after real people who are in danger of starving or freezing to death than in protecting the pseudoscientific, unsupportable myth of global warming.
Maybe I should have badges and T-shirts made with the “Bring Back Coal” slogan.
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Excellent article, Dr Coleman, You don’t balk at unpopular causes, do you? My only demurral is that fossil fuels CAN form in a short time; I’ll give you a reference if I can find it.
But then I’m a Bible-believing Christian and I believe in a short earth history, 6 thousand years or so, so I’m an extremist. But I think good science does support this. Look for articles by Dr David Rosevear, Dr Vij Sodera, Paul Garner or Philip Bell, for example, or anything on Creation Science, and make your own mind up.
Good man!
Bless you for saying this-I couldn’t agree more.
Flat earther alert.
Very nice article by Dr. Coleman.
I remember, I think in the 80’s, reading that we in the UK had enough coal reserves for 200 years supply.
Coal is a superb form of energy in that it is energy-dense and requires only rudimentary means of storage and handling because it’s just lumps of rock. We have known since the earliest times how to handle lumps of rock. Provided you keep a naked flame away from it, it appears to be impervious to climatic conditions/weather, just sits there until you are ready to use it: I am old enough to remember when every household had a coal bunker in their backyard or a coal cellar, and can just remember the end of coal-fired steam locomotives in service in the UK.
The destruction of coal-fired power stations in the UK is, in my opinion, an act of wanton, (possibly deliberate), criminality, vandalism and economic suicide, also utterly pointless if you believe the climate change (aka anthropogenic climate change) bollox since for every coal-fired power station we destroy China and India create another maybe 5 to 10. All that happens is that the economic activity that depends on fossil fuel offshores to countries – principally China, India etc. – that haven’t bought into the climate change agenda, further hollowing out/destroying the UK economy.
The purpose of Net Zero – I suspect – is to: a) destroy Western Civilization, and b) facilitate total control over the population through total control over energy use which affects every aspect of our lives.
Addressing a few other points in the article:
“English manufacturers producing iron and steel discovered that the higher temperatures possible with coal made it easy to smelt iron and work with metal.”
Maybe so. The original fuel for iron smelting was charcoal (from wood) to be replaced by coke (from coal). The latter is much stronger than charcoal meaning that iron furnaces – containing alternating layers of iron ore, coke and limestone – could be stacked higher than furnaces using weaker charcoal (which would crush if the stack was too high) and hence a greater volume of iron could be produced at one firing using coke.
“Coal is an excellent source of heat, but was deliberately demonised so that we would become dependent upon oil and gas”
I don’t agree with this assertion “demonised”. Take locomotives as an example: it takes a great deal of work to prepare a coal-fired steam loco for service compared to it’s original replacement in the UK – a diesel loco, where all the driver has to do is turn a key, press a button and the loco is ready to go.
Similarly, the replacement of coal fires for domestic heating in the UK with gas fires and gas central heating. Compare raking out a coal fire and preparing it last thing at night (coal, sticks of wood and knotted newspaper), lighting it and getting it going in the morning (which took a while) versus turning a knob and pressing a button to ignite a gas fire. I am old enough, from personal experience, to remember this happening where I lived, and I would guess that Dr. Coleman is old enough too.
Humans, and nature generally, tends towards the most efficient good, service or practice, abandoning the less efficient.
In the 18th and 19th centuries coal was replacing wood, then, arguably superior, oil and natural gas came along.
Between the First and Second World Wars ships went from coal-fired to oil-fired. Because coal was “demonised” – no.
In WW2 the Germans had little access to oil but they had plenty of coal, so chemists figured out how to produce transportation fuels from coal (instead of crude oil) to power the Germans’ war machines. I don’t think Messerschmidt 109’s or Tiger tanks ran on raw lignite! Even the rudimentary planes and tanks of WW1 didn’t run on coal: I didn’t hear of the Red Baron being shot down because he was busy, mid-flight, stoking his triplane’s boiler with another shovelful of coal:
“During World War II, several plants in Nazi Germany produced oil from coal using synthetic fuel technologies. One prominent example was Brabag (Braunkohle Benzin AG), a firm established in 1934 to produce synthetic gasoline and other petroleum products from lignite coal.4 Brabag operated multiple facilities, including the Brabag II plant in Ruhland-Schwarlheide, which was one of the four Fischer-Tropsch plants built in Nazi Germany.” (Brave browser search result)
“Demonised” – no, replacement for something more efficient.
Coal demonised generally, in the West. Absolutely. China and India aren’t demonising it.
Bring back DOMESTIC coal for power generation – absolutely.
“In 1800, the annual world coal output was 15 million tonnes. By 1900, the annual world coal output was 700 million tons and coal had transformed the world. The 19th century was the Coal Age.”
Not so the last statement in this paragraph. According to the data, fossil fuel consumption – in total – only overtook the previous dominant fuel – traditional bio-fuels ie. wood – in the year 1900. So the 19th Century was still a traditional bio-fuels century.
In the 20th Century, per capita, coal per was swapped out for oil and natural gas, the latter fuels increasing until the 70’s and then plateauing for 20 years coinciding with the global contraction/stagflation occurring during that period.
FYI: It could argued, from the data, that the last global economic expansion was powered by – a return to – coal.
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I think our country is being run by idealogues, criminals and traitors who want to run the country and its people into the ground. Cheap and reliable energy destruction and mass ILLEGAL immigration are just two of the ways they are going about it, I believe.
You should write more articles. Great stuff. I too believe they are deliberately destroying the west as we are those that will challenge and destroy them. Our leaders are inbred morons. I look forward to getting rid of them.
was same in USA until Trump Worldwide satanic globalists are going DOWN!
There is no such thing as a “Fossil Fuel”.
Agree.
Oil is the Blood of the Earth. Gas is the Intestinal by-product of the Earth.
Nice way of putting it. Mother Earth feeds us.
To any that have respect unto God’s written word, we are expressly commanded to subdue the earth (Genesis 1:28).
That is, to take from it what you want-it is yours to do with it what you will.
God’s word has no place in the thoughts of the current powers that be, the order has been reversed, precisely as Satan would have it be! Confusion prevails. He would have us subdue the heavens-that is the wind and the sun (wind turbines and solar panels).
Any right thinking person ought by now see that wind and solar energy is at best only transient.
Bingo
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We agree it’s the corrupted zealots like Ed Millipead that are the problem
To date, I cannot think of a single instance where I dissagree with Dr. Coleman. But then, I am 78.
What a bozo. Oil isn’t fossil…its an abiotic product of the earth and nature…and blocking the sun. Hilarious. When they had a total eclipse in the USA did you notice in the UK? No. How do you think they could possibly block 100,000 square miles of sky over the UK alone? Clearly no clue about logistics. Just another chemtard. Debunked fear mongering. Stick to the medical stuff.
Hi Reverend Scott, the article is about coal, not oil.
Strictly speaking, from a chemical composition point of view, coal is not a hydrocarbon. According to THIS paper “Coal is one of several natural products, which — although not containing hydrocarbons — can be converted to hydrocarbons. Coal is also a fossil fuel formed in swamp exosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidation and biodegradation.”
Oil, on the other hand, is primarily composed of hydrocarbons, which are organic compounds consisting of hydrogen and carbon atoms – so oil is a hydrocarbon. Natural gas is also a hydrocarbon.
Firstly, perhaps the process that forms hydrocarbons is more nuanced than simply one way or another with nothing in between; a black and white worldview, either only abiogenic (inorganic) or only biogenic (organic).
Secondly, we should not assume that how oil and natural gas is formed is the same as the process for coal formation; fossils are frequently found within coal deposits, for example. (Read more about the theories of coal formation HERE). Another thing to consider is peat. It is said that peat is the earliest stage of coal formation. Peat is formed through the partial decomposition of plant material in waterlogged environments like bogs or marshes.
It would be worth taking these things into consideration before calling someone a bozo.
Evening Rhoda,
You won’t get a reply from ‘Rev’ Scott, but I’d rather be proved wrong.
I don’t agree with everything (nor do you) that Dr. Coleman writes, regardless, he knows that there is a conspiracy afoot-as most (including Rev Scott) who visit The Expose also do.
So lets give him credit for continuing to write against the narrative? He has an audience-may this increase?
“Bozo” isn’t in my vocabulary; but I think this is a case of “it takes one to know one” or “the pot calling the kettle black”, and “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”?
Indeed, there is a similarity between coal and peat, but I think that is all it is. Up here we practically live on a peat bog! Some think it is energy free for the taking; it is anything but! Peat cutting/drying is damned hard graft, and sadly a fast dying custom as it is more convenient to buy a bag of coal! (whilst we can get it!). The decline in peat cutting up here in the last ten years or so is quite simply alarming…
Hi Islander, it would be very bizarre for two people to agree on everything – if that happened I would suspect coercive control or some other power play scenario which allowed one person to dominate the other, in which case it’s not true agreement but the outward appearance of agreement.
Whether we agree with someone’s opinion or not, they are allowed to air it. What we shouldn’t do is try to insult, bully and intimidate people into silence. That’s what using the word “bozo” is doing. People think, “Oh, it’s just one person being silly.” But people need to understand that those who put themselves into the spotlight might received dozens of such insults, and worse, in one day.
Re peat cutting. I recall reading sometime ago that the European Commission was declaring peat bogs as protected areas (all to do with climate change and carbon emissions, of course) in Ireland which was causing problems for peat cutters. When I read about it, I remember thinking, “they’re doing everything they can to make people dependent on them for energy.” I wonder if similar climate change decrees have been placed in your area?
Hi Rhoda, another excellent article from Dr Coleman with excellent comment from Mark. I too, am well past my sell-by date and can remember the process of lighting a coal fire. But then, I come from a long lost mining community. What I’ve seen in my many years, especially in the last five years, has led me to the obvious conclusion that the psychotic clever idiots in power today want only one thing – the planet’s resources to themselves; and that means 90% of us rank and file have to go. The Georgia Guidestones explicitly stated this before they were (conveniently?) destroyed a few years ago; a world population of 500,000 means that coal mines can be opened up again, North Sea oil can be maximised again to name but two examples. But only to benefit the few. All part of the plan. Put simply, the Earth’s resources belong to all of us, not the Robber Barons masquerading as our “governments”, cowards under the thumb of the ultimate mafia. When are people going to wake up to the fact that we are at war; not war as it was once known, but a war where the enemy is not a country; the enemy is in plain sight.
To whomsoever gave my comment the negative vote: we see you.
I’m not aware that there has ever been any “climate change decrees” in my “area”. This isn’t to say that the UK/Scottish government haven’t been busy at work orchestrating events to this end!
I do recollect the Irish problem for peat cutters.
Not long after moving up here some thirteen years ago, I wanted to get digging peat, but was advised against it-coal is much cleaner, and easily available-then only ÂŁ5 a 20kg bag-now ÂŁ15-so “why slog your guts out?” Modern life is all about ease and convenience! But for how much longer? Peat stacks are a very rare sight these days.
Its not just the “climate change decrees”, the younger generations (not all-but most) came to hate the way of their forefathers; why rear and slaughter animals when you can buy meat in nicely presented packages in the Tesco and Co-Op shops up here? There used to be sheep everywhere.
TPTB are really pushing hard the (non-existent) bird flu narrative again, now telling us humans can contract it, that we should keep dogs on leads at all times, not to to touch bird feathers of any kind! How much longer before dogs, cats, and sheep catch it and all need to be culled???
Oil exploration has been below ( deeper ) than the fossil fuel layer for many yrs . Prouty comes to mind , I’ll find it .
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AkJqraXqKLU prouty col.
Hi History, yes that’s correct. Oil is usually found deeper than the fossil layer – but coal seams are found in the fossil layer. That’s why I mentioned fossils being found in coal deposits as one of the differences between oil and coal in my response to Reverend Scott. Reverend Scott made the basic error of thinking oil = coal when the two are not the same, in fact they’re not even related; except we use both as a source of energy.
This might be the article you’re looking for: L. Fletcher Prouty: Oil is not a fossil fuel; it is the second most prevalent liquid on Earth
yupper and nuke,s don’t exist. Fear Fear Fear
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EM3HyFw85po why are these and others fixated on the wests ignorance when all we have to look at is Quebec and there’s never a study or controversy over anything project in Quebec .
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/i3B9xZQxXf8 USAinc