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I remember dad coming home from work one day when I was quite young, maybe 1970, and declaring coal was "dead".  I initially laughed because we thought he meant coal was a "dense black carbon fossil" so of course "it was dead" But no, dad was well in front of Big Picture energy trends. And coal as a sustainable (profitable?) energy source was dead to the geological exploration world as early as then, if not sooner. As usual, dad quit companies he thought lacked integrity so it was good bye Aussie Rio Tinto, hello Canadian Superior Oil. After all, the exploration of global energy sources was dad's career for more than 40 years from the late 1940's and he knew his massive open cut coal from deep ocean oil to artesian gas reserves and high yield uranium ore. The Rock Doctor Dear Old Dad, could sniff out fossilised and fixed energy "reserves" from Mother Earth and the scientific geo-"logical" evidence, but he wasn't tr...