One thing I realized recently is that we have "coal power plants" that produce zero electricity: coal seam fires. This gets very little attention given the impo

One thing I realized recently is that we have "coal power plants" that produce zero electricity: coal seam fires. This gets very little attention given the importance. I think it's low-hanging fruit for climate mitigations. On the order of 1 Gigatonne of CO2 per year is emitted from coal seam fires, versus ~14 Gigatonnes of CO2 from coal as useful fuel globally. This post on Effective Altruism had the same idea I had (ignore the right-leaning arguments contained therein and focus on the factual statements): https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2nrx8GdtobScoAZF8/extinguishing-or-preventing-coal-seam-fires-is-a-potential https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2nrx8GdtobScoAZF8/... It shouldn't proportionally cost a whole lot to stop these coal seam fires (which are mostly human caused, although ALL contribute to climate change), and they are really terrible for other reasons as well (safety, local air pollution, literally wasting fossil resources, etc). The issue deserves more attention. It's incredibly low hanging fruit.