America's Dirty Secret: Coal Ash 

Im pretty sure tim he is saying if we mined it out of a hole and it wasnt poisoning us then why not use the same hole to store it back in... Seems to me thats what they are trying to say

@@waltergwinn9189 Except the chemical characteristics have completely changed. If they stacked the coal unburned outside the run off would not be anywhere near as bad as after it is burned. Plus remember most of this stuff is strip mined today. That is not a sage hole to store in.

Send all of the coal ash to the shithole countries in Africa......problem solved.

@@dragmit Coal mining approval includes a provision for refill or backfill. The company takes a short cut and cut cost.

@Ian Concannon flyash is as good as cement

No need to be next to it, downwind or downstream will do "nicely". Cheers!

Do you understand that most landfills are lined, and do not receive anything like the input of heavy metals that are found in coal ash? Yeah, thinking is hard work, per "W"

KB, sorry to read that. It sounds like another one of the MANY PLACES on the globe that has NOT been informed of the full story. Well no surprise, there: that's the way flim-flam men operate; everything is sunny and rosy ... until it is NOT. Be informed: pound-for-pound --- IN THE LONGER RUN --- renewables --- hydro, solar, wind, etc --- will result in GREATER VOLUMES of toxic waste than any of other the higher-density energy sources: Increased hydro dams will result in many more choked rivers and streams, loss of fish species, habitat, forests and etc. 1000s upon 1000s of worn-out toxic-material wind turbines --- they have an average life-span of fewer than 20 years --- are already beginning to overwhelm such legal disposal facilities. Millions upon millions of tons of expired batteries, especially from electric cars, will need to be disposed of, where, even now, for example, in several European locations, car owners are finding it extremely difficult and EXPENSIVE to secure legal disposal locations ... because such batteries are so toxic. Not much solar up there in BC; but, if there was, can you imagine the 1000s of square miles of forests that would need to be destroyed in order to make sufficient space for solar panels? And, the preceding does not even mention the massive number of additional open-pit mines needed to produce the metals --- especially rare earth metals --- needed just to manufacture all the new electric cars and etc ... are hardly even discussed, and, on a national level, for all practical purposes, are not discussed at all Note that regarding such metals: the great majority of these mines are in 3rd world countries where SLAVE LABOR is used for mining and processing. The reason for the above is ENERGY DENSITY; actually, the LACK thereof; where, renewables, compared to coal, nuclear, petroleum, can NOT compete. Renewables are NOT relatively energy-dense. IOW: regarding the TOXIC IMPACT of renewables: YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING, YET! Hope that you all enjoy it!

Cuyana2020 Ivan - I could not have said it better myself. All these uninformed people in the comments section screaming to sue the coal companies into bankruptcy are so easily misled. If they simply did a little research with an open mind they will quickly realize that they are being lied to.

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Would you believe it's not just in the USA? How 'bout UK, Germany (with all their lignite), China, etc, etc.?

Wrong! Coal does contain radioactive metals, one of them being uranium.

That was not the point of the video. We can do better and we are, we can do more. It does take a commitment to improving our world. Coal now produces less than 30 percent of our power, so we are moving forward. Lets be honest we also waste a lot of power. I use very little power, no AC its really not a big deal . We have grown soft.

It's the metals being burnt with the coal that are the problem. Not very bright are ya? Even watch the damn video man?

well it takes power to make hydrogen

That power needn't come from burning coal.

Our most abundant power source is the sun. Where did all the coal come from? And where did all the plants that made that coal derive their energy from? How is it that people are still so trapped in their paradigms that they cannot understand that there is a gigantic nuclear fusion power station up above?

takes a lot of electric power to make hydrogen so where does the power come from to make the hydrogen to run the electric plants with hydrogen you don't make any sense at all and need to stop watching youtube videos of those phonies claiming to run their cars on hydrogen or Browns gas

KISS. Just make clear the distinction between power and energy/work. Avoid the fluff. Energy for a given time internal is integral of power over that interval. Look at a "Kill-A-Watt" to investigate that sort of thing. Power-factor study, a bonus.

wonder if you'll say the same thing as the cancer eats away at your bones

same as it ever was

Being that all coal is formed from strata of the same or similar sediments, you should expect similarity. Why would it depend on where/how it was burned?

Because the amounts are small enough that it's not financially viable.

why don't pigs fly

Yea, if you have kids in China and India to do it!

Luckily you are part of the most irritating group of 'Muricans, and you love being a scourge to your grandchildren. You will be dead, but they will live with your legacy.... But not as long as they should. But please, do go on. Ride that hog of yours. It's loud and irritating and reminds everyone else why you are and should be despised.

and get filthy rich in the meantime from all this hoopla thousands of scientist are now claiming its a hoax for profit

Manbearpig

Stupifing spray and it's really working!

Yea so the heavy metals can wash off the roads into streams and into the oceans. What's it going to be like when we can no longer harvest fish from streams and oceans, not to mention safe drinking water. I forgot, it's already like that now. Good job corporate America, you're really watching out for us, right? No worries though, scientists will find a way to activate our slime genes as we slither through life.

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yeah that sounds as good as an idea as putting asbestos in concrete (yes that did happen)... Think future, think demolition, think dust... toxic dust.

@@guillaumegaudin694 they do use fly ash in concrete. trucks are moving by my house day and night they haul the fly ash from page to las vegas and bring lime back Barney trucking is the compony it isn't hurting any thing it's progress you don't like it move to a undeveloped country.

Think that some day, your children or your grand children may own a house where such concrete has been used, and they may not be aware that it's not regular concrete, so they would drill or cut through it for some reason and breathe the dust... I know that as long as the ash is trapped in the concrete it's no harm, but it won't be like this forever. In france we used asbestos without any state control until 1996, now it's everywhere and it's costing a lot of money to decontaminate when we want to do make overs. I just think that ash in concrete is a bad idea for the same reason using asbestos in construction material was a bad idea

after i'm no chemist and don't know for a fact what exactly is in the ash and how it would exactly be released in the case of demolition of this concrete, so prove me wrong if any research has been done, i'd love to see it documented. Just because it should be, information is number one.

if you breath saw dust from trees im talking about wood its bad if you breath dust from the ground its bad for you if you drink to much water its bad for you it can kill you if your exposed to too much radiation its bad for you by the way the sun produces that carcinogen radiation every thing is bad in high doses there is much more I want to say explain but my old lady is after me at the moment

need to improve the process

the only President that wont even take a salary and he is cramming cash into his pockets get real and ask the doctor to change your meds

The Trump EPA is going to jump right on that.

Sure, people only die of old age. Cool story, bro.

michael malone what is wrong with you