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The estimates of global coal production/reserves are derived from the Energy Information Administration, “International Energy Outlook 2009”, chapter 4, table 9. Those figures are for 2006, so the World Energy Council estimate: “Early studies suggest that the use of UCG could potentially increase world reserves of coal by as much as 600 billion tonnes”, from World Energy Council, “Survey of Energy Resources”, 2007, p 7. Dermot J. Roddy and Paul L. Younger, “Underground Coal Gasification with CCS: A Pathway to Decarbonising Industry”, Energy and Environmental Science, 3, 2010, pp 400–407. See also International Energy Agency, “World Energy Outlook 2010”. production estimate has been adjusted upwards in line with the global output rise indicated in chapter 1, figure 14. Short tons have been converted to tonnes. Cf. Energy Watch Group, Coal: Resources and Future Production, 2007, pp 21–26, available at http://tinyurl.com/q7eavva .

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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