[Nightrider]

all things eventualy change....more expensive or no, they will have to convert to more efficient, more available, cleaner energy and come into the 21st century....

[decimon]

I have to quibble with the "more available" part. The supply is plentiful if the transport is lacking.

[Jacquerie]

To keep electricity flowing to some 1.6 million homes, the power plant burns up to 24,000 tons of coal every day.

I wonder what the equivalent number of fart fans is to 24,000 tons of coal.