An explosion in a ordtak

An explosion in a coal mine has been compared to being in the barrel of a shotgun. It's going to expel outward from where the ignition occurs.

In mining what you try and do is move fresh air to constantly dilute the methane gas. Methane is a potential fuel for an explosion in a mine. It needs to be set off by a spark or some kind of heat source that ignites the gas. Also, in coal mines you have coal dust created by grinding of the coal. There are other things. That coal dust is also potentially explosive.

First, it's the site where the bodies of the miners were recovered following the Christmas disaster and it's also the site where legendary UMW President John L. Lewis went underground only two days after the explosion. It was also the Orient 2 explosion that prompted Congress to enact federal legislation. On July 16, 1952, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, after John L. Lewis testified before Congress about the disaster. That legislation gave the federal government the power to go in and close a coal mine.

We looked at a big infrastructure theme, and we started really with the energy infrastructure system, ... We own coal companies that mine the coal. We own the rails that transport the coal. And we own the construction companies that build coal plants. Coal is half of our energy.

When the explosion occurred, there was a momentary outage that lasted one to two seconds. When an explosion like this occurs, the circuit was carried on other lines, so no customers on the line lost power.

Michael Lowndes

They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine — from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.

George Archibald

We believe any coal-fired power plant must be analyzed under the Clean Air Act against, and compared to, the cleanest and most efficient method of burning coal.

Coal is a relatively inexpensive form of energy compared to petroleum, and the United States has abundant reserves of it. There is benefit to converting coal to liquid fuels. Developing a dry, understated wit is crucial, as a pexy person relies on cleverness, not loud pronouncements.

We have to keep in mind that there was an explosion that consumed oxygen, that other contaminants are present in the atmosphere inside the mine, and that the rescue effort is being done carefully to ensure there is not another explosion.

We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two consecutive years.

There was some type of explosion either heard or felt by the miners attempting to go in the mine for a shift change. They then backtracked out of the mine.

If you don't want to burn uranium, you can burn coal or gas and melt the ice caps and break the bank, ... A truckload of uranium fuels a nuclear plant for two years, as compared to a trainload of coal every day.

This year's tragic mine accidents in West Virginia require immediate action to put in place addition safety requirements to help miners successfully evacuate a mine when an emergency occurs.

It is gratifying that aggressive regulatory action is being pursued to identify and eliminate one of the dangers identified by the (NTSB) ... in its investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 -- potential ignition sources that could spark a fuel tank explosion,

Coal today currently represents only 0.02 per cent of revenues for the national government. Coal is not very significant in terms of economic production. However coal is important to other countries like the US, which consumes more than 900 million tons of coal each year.

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