Posts Tagged ‘ Earth’s rich coal seams are a solar bank account ’

Financial and Environmental Disasters

Oct 15th, 2006 | By | Category: Macro Economics
IN HER GEM of a book, Coal: A Human History, Barbara Freese clarifies why coal has proven such a boon to modern civilization. In essence, the Earth's rich coal seams are a solar bank account, packed with eons worth of sunshine. Freese expounds: "Animals eating plants take that stored energy into ...read more