Snowy Hydro will not produce power until end of the decade, page-10

Wow. That's fantastic news .

I'm really glad you shared that with us.

So, how does a coal fired power station generate power if the coal isn't dug up, processed, loaded into the boiler, turned into steam and then directed into the turbine driver ?

I could argue that a coal fired power station will never generate a watt of power unless that complex process of mining the coal occurs first.

Does that mining process not require a form of energy to make it happen ?

Kind of like pumping water uphill to supply the turbine generators that actually generate the electricity, isn't it ?