Oh, that is interesting! this is where the coal might be coming from! I might be thinking from the POV of UK where the coal mining died off after 1980s and the coal might be still used in the US.
But it still doesn't explain the manual labour, nad the inconsistencies in technology/vs level of life..
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But it still doesn't explain the manual labour, nad the inconsistencies in technology/vs level of life..