Just do a little more research, Thack. Oslimeball And his NEW regulations going into effect are shutting down many, many plants that have decades life left in them.
One I am familiar with just makes steam that is gone in seconds and the new regs are so restrictive and expensive that it is shutting down. All totaled, the mining jobs and plant jobs will total about 250 that willbe gone. Jobs American Indians currently hold and they will be relegated back tothe reservation unemployed.
Texas used to be entirely self sufficient with their grid but thanks to Obama and his greenies we had to shut dow several coal plants and 6 new coal plants were canceled. Now Texas buys electricity during high demand summers from Mexico.
We arefools for shutting down all these coal plants, period. Of course the. Newest plants will be more efficient but when we have all these plants already online and paid for with 200 years of fuel it is insane to just throw it away. Obama will get his way with very, very expensive utilities for Americans and we just sit by and let it happen.
Why can’t they just tear out the steam turbines and put in NG engines? Leave the dynamos there?
I have, of the six plants planned to close discussed in this article:
2 were built in the 1940s, 3 built in the 1950s, and one built in the 1960s. None are new.