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Coal Energy
HOW WE GET COAL Mining the Coal Coal miners use giant machines to remove coal from the ground. They use two methods: surface or ... coal is buried less than 200 feet underground. In surface mining, giant machines remove the top-soil and layers of rock to expose large beds ... mines, miners ride elevators down deep mine shafts where they run machines that dig out the coal. Read about a visit to a ...
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Coal River Mountain Watch :: Campaigns
After a blast is set off, the rubble (called overburden) is picked up by giant machines and dropped into nearby valleys creating valley fills. These fills can be a mile wide ...
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EIA Kids Page - Energy Field Trips with Energy Ant to Chesterfield Power Station
Giant machines lift up the railroad cars and dump the coal on the large ... the steam, it is sent through big turbines. These turbines are like giant fans that are turned by the rushing steam. After the steam ... , adjust steam flow, and make sure there are no problems with the machines. There is a team of controllers in the control room twenty-four ...
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Origins: CERN: Place
Nuclear Research) is the world's largest particle physics research center. Here, scientists use giant machines -- particle accelerators and detectors -- to study the smallest objects in the universe. CERN's large ...
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Mountain Justice - What is Mountain Top Removal Mining?
A dragline digs into the rock to expose the coal. These machines can weigh up to 8 million pounds with a base as big as a gymnasium and as tall as a 20-story building. These machines allow coal companies to hire fewer workers. A small crew can tear ... day. Coal companies make big profits at the expense of us all. 4. Giant machines then scoop out the layers of coal, dumping millions of tons of â ...
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Mountain-Top Removal Mining in Appalachia | Erik Reece | Orion magazine
And all strip miningâ ...
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Earth Island Institute | Earth Island Journal
Instead, it’s a process carried out by giant machines, huge explosions, and very few men. Some who live near the mining see in mountaintop ... and draglines fills the air, along with the irritating “beep-beep-beep” of monster machines shifting into reverse. Wendell Berry’s “witness tours” include examining MTR sites on the ...
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Bicycle Fixation: Ride Report: The Accidental Century
I love industrial architecture and the hum of giant machines; the tangles, cables, valves, and railroad tracks that surround the giant pressure vessels and towering oil storage tank is poetic to ... Jeff Lyons. My little Bottecchia, though of unspectacular pedigree, held her own among these fine machines, at least once we got rolling. The Long beach ride follows, quite naturally, the coast ...
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A Plea For The Ancient Forest! (flying squirrel)
The flying squirrels have nowhere to fly, and so ...
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John and Nancy Jack Todd - The Restoration Of Waters
I put together twenty-one giant aquaria and seeded them with hundreds of species of organisms. In ... increasingly about a concept to which I've given the name "living machines." The idea of the living machine is going to be disturbing ... All of the basic work of society could be done by living machines. Robert: It sounds almost like you're creating new species. John: ...
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