Trapped miners

Chalky. · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Karma :

Been seeing this on the BBC news page all day.

Third miner out of four now confirmed day.

What a nasty way to go.

Bad times.

RIP miner dudes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14949286

Clanger · Stirrer Joined: 27 May 2004 Karma :

All four dead.
Big shame.
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Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

These are the chaps who die to keep the lights on. You're reading this now thanks to them. Proper heroes.

Energy Source

Death Rate (deaths per TWh)

Coal – world average

161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Oil

36 (36% of world energy)
Natural Gas

4 (21% of world energy)
Solar (rooftop)

0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)
Wind

0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)
Hydro

0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)
Nuclear

0.04 (5.9% of world energy)
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yuri2085 · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Karma :

I call BS on those figures.
Unless there is some country that LOVES to kill coal miners all day.

Maybe Peta Watt hours?

Howling TerrorOutOfOffice · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Karma :

This thread is the pits...

Whistle

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yuri2085 · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Karma :

Interesting.
Would you mind sharing your source?

That is an insanely high death rate for China, horrifying really.

lukas222 · Derestricted Danger Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Karma :

Yes It's a terrible event, but they are not heroes.https://www.imgquick.com/images/43.gif

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Source: take 30 seconds to google it, I'm not your nanny.

Hero is as hero does. I wouldn't go down a pit. Would you? And if you think what they do isn't important, hit the power button. Any reply merely makes my point for me. Ah hah, that's you flummoxed.
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Aff · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 May 2011 Karma :

Those figures are including the pollution from the source and production, I think the number of people dying involved in producing the energy would be significantly lower.
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mistergixer · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Karma :

Songs for mining disasters.

#1 on my list is Alan Price - Trimdon Grange Explosion

What do you get if you push a piano down a mine shaft?

A flat minor.
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mistergixer · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Karma :

It's (historically) one of the hardest jobs around, whilst i do believe it's got a little easier in modern times, it still must be fucking hard graft.

Have a read of George Orwell's essay Down the Mine, it gives some indication of just how hard a job it was.

My family hail from the area around Shildon, Bishop Auckland & Spennymoor, and (prior to the pit closures) many of them were miners.

My Grandfather used to jokingly comment that 'Spenny were a hard place, as bairns we used to play tiggy with hammers'.

On an entirely separate and soft note, i really miss him. I named one of my sons after him, and if he grows up to be half the man my Grandad was, i can go to my grave a happy man.
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D O G · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Karma :

My Granfather was a miner, in Murton, Co. Durham. He was once trapped in a collapse for 48hrs. He had to strip naked to be squeezed through the hole the rescuers made for him.

He understood that it was a shit job, which is why he pushed his kids to become educated in order that they wouldn't have to do the same arduous & dangerous job he did.

He had no wish to be down there, he just had no choice.

plugger147 · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Karma :

How do we know they are not hero's, the guys who died may of died getting the others who were in the mine to safety but then hero is such a stupid word banded about all the time. Kick a ball about your a hero to some people...
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