RE: RE: PRB coal reserves overstatedI posted that link a couple of weeks ago. Nobody seemed to care.
It should ring some alarm bells when 200 billion tons of coal gets whacked down to 10 billion tons with a shot of reality. America burns something like 1 billion tons a year.
The abstract (not a direct link to the rather large file) can be found here.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1202/