coal: fragments of energy and life
fossil solar energy #1 (skeletons), 2015
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Earth
ligth
Sun
life
legacy
energy
fossil life
deep time
Sun’s light
Earth planet
fossil energy
photosynthesis
emotional energy
Carboniferous vegetation
carbon dioxide emissions
climate change
carbochemistry
earth sciences
fossil solar energy #2 (fossil guy), 2015
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fossil solar energy #3 (grey survival), 2015
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fossil solar energy #4 (red survival), 2015
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fossil solar energy #5 (orange survival), 2015
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fossil solar energy #6 (orange survivors), 2015
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fossil solar energy #7 (bubbles of fire), 2015
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fossil solar energy #8 (orange landscape), 2015
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fossil solar energy #9 (fossil fire), 2015
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coal: fragments of energy and life
Sun, Earth, energy, and life: a history carved in rock.
Coal is our main source of energy, and also the most polluting. Fortunately in the last few years humans are developing technologies to obtain more clean energy out of coal, that mitigate its harmful environmental effect.
But mainly, it is a legacy of Earth's past, written in black fragments of his bowels. They preserve the energy that plants captured from the Sun 200 million years ago, converted into chemical energy kept intact until today.
It is an heritage of energy, generously bequeathed by our planet. Very often we have been ungrateful, and have simply pulled it out of the ground to burn, without a second look at the medium- and long-term consequences for its health.
Pieces of energy and life, located in tiny corners of our microcosm, expressed in my captures as minuscule traces that tell us about extinct plant species, buried among its rich funerary treasures: the vital energy obtained from the particles carrying sunlight.
And are again the quanta of light, ones that when they impact on these traces, reveal us the suggestive microlandscapes narrate us this important story carved in rock.
Antonio Romero
life,
Sun,
light,
Earth,
legacy
energy,
fossil life,
deep time,
Sun’s light,
Earth planet,
fossil energy,
emotional energy,
photosynthesis,
Carboniferous vegetation,
carbon dioxide emissions,
greenhouse gases,
global dimming,
global warming,
climate change,
acid rain,
carbochemistry,
earth sciences,
coal mining,
pneumoconiosis,
clean coal technology,
thermal power station,
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