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Wait!?! Aren’t Republicans going to pass a law to mandate they have to keep burning coal?
(sarcasm) Coal is the cheap affordable fuel of choice! (end of sarcasm)
This will be a price increase. Why? All the Democrats demanding solutions to climate change. The utilities are doing what Democrats demand.
Then the Democrats can buy votes by saying they’ll offer government programs. I hope Americans snap out of it.
David, if you like burning coal so much, ditch the natural gas in your home and start burning (wait for it) coal.
I worked for AES for 12 years. If coal was going to be cheaper and more cost effective, they would still be on the coal train. New gas extraction technology has made gas cheaper and coal is dead, even if you could get ANY multinational bank to finance a coal project.
“Coal, it keeps the lights on”
Not since new fracking and drilling technology has made gas so cheap.
Burning coal emits all kinds of nasty things to the air, including radioactive materials, heavy metals, & carcinogens. Living in coal pollution is demonstrably unhealthy. Natural gas doesn’t end up really being any better as far as CO2 emissions are concerned, but it’s a lot better to burn than coal.
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Don’t forget about massive coal ash ponds leaking and overflowing. When you burn coal, that ash is the byproduct.
Coal ash has high concentrations of mercury and arsenic, among other nasty things.
Drive down to Madison sometime. Just past Clifty Falls State Park is a coal plant along the Ohio River surrounded by coal ash…if it floods and breaches, all the downstream public water intakes will have to deal with the contamination.
to me this is just rearranging the chairs on the titanic. Its the equivalent of the mafia asking you if you want to drown in the shallow end or the deep end…as in what is the difference between coal and gas. Gas has less pollutants….about 50% less carbon that coal and 30% less than oil. Our energy consumption continues to increase…oil (at least world wide) and electricity (locally and worldwide). The continued computerization of our world will guarantee a continued increase as servers increase in numbers, (just look at what bit coin mining incurs). The increase in electric cars. We can get all the electricity we want during the day from photovoltaic cells and drive down the cost per kilowatt during the day…but our current and near term likelihood of storage of excess electricity for the night time is not there. Also because the disparateness of our grid we are not able to efficiently move excess electricity to other regional locales in need. i fear that at some point…soon…we are going to have an energy shortage…an ability to produce electricity in sufficient quantities at the proper times and in the proper places. There is a certain political party who always talks about how the adults are back in charge….well…let’s hear it from the adults in the room. Natural gas, wind, photovoltaic, hydro (decreasing as dams are being removed) are insufficient to meet our long term needs