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You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore. It probably doesn't compare at all. Also coal itself biogenic source of gas and probably surrounded/connected to
by twomoretime 7y ago
You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore. It probably doesn't compare at all.
Also coal itself biogenic source of gas and probably surrounded/connected to other gas generating lithology. So when you expose a coal seam to the atmosphere it will naturally release some amount of gas depending on exact composition and cook time. I'm just guessing here, my experience is in oil and IIRC coal is typically way past the "oil window" but probably comfortably within the very generous gas window.
Uranium is inorganic.
- rsync 7y ago"You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore." I suspect this is true, but the amount of material you need to turn over to get this uranium ore is tremendous. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it is roughly equal to coal mining. There is a fairly detailed chapter in the excellent William T. Vollmann book _No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies_ where he describes in fine detail the process of mining and refining uranium - it is much more energy intensive than I imagined ...
- ncmncm 7y agoHuge, but still orders of magnitude behind coal. It is impossible for normal people to comprehend the scale of everything associated with coal.