Posted on 09/22/2016 5:37:44 PM PDT by Innovative
Donald J. Trump on Thursday traveled to Pittsburgh, a city once synonymous with the rich coal seam that runs beneath it and now the capital of natural gas fracking, to promise the impossible: a boom for both coal and gas.
Mr. Trump’s energy promises to those attending a corporate conference contained a fundamentally incompatible concept, as expanding the exploration of natural gas is the surest way to hurt coal production, and vice versa. Since the two fuels compete directly for the same market — the power plants that light American homes — it is effectively impossible to increase production of one without decreasing the other.
But ever the salesman, Mr. Trump gave it a go and promised to restore the region’s old coal economy and pump up its booming new gas economy.
“The shale energy revolution will unleash massive wealth for America,” he told an audience of chief executives from the energy industry. “And we will end the war on coal and the war on miners.”
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However at 3 dollars, it is a waste and you can use other things which is cheaper....
Reading the NYT is not advised...
I fully expect every labor union, which are continually shrinking, to endorse her. They bought and paid for her. The truth is that rank and file workers are all Trump, period. Did you see her rant at the union groups foray in Vegas? She is desperate and so are they as Right to Work is emasculating the old guard union bosses.
America has more than 350 years worth of recoverable coal.
I understand that. At no time would I ever suggest that we’re running out of coal — or any other fossil fuel, for that matter.
I was called away for a moment and didn’t conclude my point.
It makes no sense to walk away from a known energy resource that can provide low cost electric power for the next ten generations.
I agree. It may not necessarily be the most cost-efficient source of electric power, though.
Perhaps not at this moment with nat gas coming out our ears.
Its useful to consider the “rank” of various fuels. Coal is a low rank fuel, requiring infrastructure, handling, rail hauling and ash disposal. Gas is a high rank fuel. It can be pushed through a pipe and when it arrives where its needed, can be burned, used as motor fuel, reprocessed into chemicals, etc. Crude oil would be considered mid-rank. Easy to transport but requires several steps at an oil refinery.
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