Posted on 02/12/2024 3:50:15 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
declining global demand for coal, which has become more costly than renewables for generating electricity
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Why this? Because the guv put so much regulations and penalties on it. Remember, Obama promised to bankrupt the coal mines! He is fulfilling that promise!
My Black Hills gas bill is the highest I have ever had. On the other hand, I wonder what our local power plant(AEP) will do as they use Wyoming Coal to fire it.
China is responsible for 29% of the world’s greenhouse gases while we are 9%. Yet Americans must bear higher energy costs due to the demonization of fossil fuels.
Part of the demonization, to my view, is the phrase itself, "fossil fuels."
I usually steer conversations about this to "hydrocarbons," because it is a fine entry point to discuss "hyrdo" -- water -- and "carbon" as so many gifts to us are created in the crust of this world.
I would not be surprised that at some time in the future some method of making hydrocarbons of the petroleum sort chemically, i.e. by some as yet undiscovered process. Perhaps fanciful thinking, but we shall see.
I also suspect the "numbers" as to coal use are not wholly accurate, as the US is about four percent of the world's population, and we don't use exorbitant amounts of energy. Certainly not more than any nation with our level of seeming prosperity.
Best wishes.
Colorado energy industry is on the skids. All the solar panels in the state won’t be enough. And EXPENSIVE
The world is in a carbon dioxide DROUGHT! C02 is plant food and if the current 0.04 percent of the atmosphere drops to 0.02 Carbon Dioxide, plants will start dying.
Humans depend on plants!
Coal is the US greatest natural resource!
They say US is Saudi Arabia of coal. We have about 50-70% of coal worldwide. And it is the best coal there is, anthracite.
Not only coal generates electricity, it is also used in house and water heating, metallurgy and chemical processing.
Even gas can be manufactured out of coal.
I think that’s why Obama declared war on coal.
Off-grid decentralized power is a very strong sales pitch to sell solar technology to freedom loving Americans. For big government loving centralized power communists, that's a strong sales pitch to favor nuclear power. They can't control people they don't like if they can't cancel their economic existence at the push of a button. Nuclear power also has the feature of being prohibitively expensive, requiring taxpayers to take on debt up to their eyeballs and wait 25 years for the union construction to finish. It's hard for communists to envy their neighbors after spending their wealth for them, burying them in debt, and damaging their land value by building perpetual nuclear waste storage sites on Republican voter land, guarded by low-IQ imported Islamic fanatics. The communists will certainly mandate DEI hires, that can't even spell Chernobyl, to operate the reactor cores.
Nuclear = another excuse for the Dims to change their minds on our energy sources cuz nuclear is dangerous doncha know.
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