Trump signs four executive orders promoting coal industry ... which will then be undone by the next dem president.
Tired of presidents legislating by executive order.
Long past due.
Also, politically, not a bad thing pumping up the economy in Eastern Kentucky, Southeastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, the Southwest portion of Virginia and ALL of West Virginia.
A learned professor once told me “Use petroleum to make things, burn coal.”
We may or may not have a need for coal for fuel, but carbon fiber and graphene are basically the new oil. We will need coal for that.
Back in the bad old days when coal was used for home heating and open-hearth furnaces were used to smelt steel, there was an enormous amount of sulfur oxides, coal tars and particulate ash and carbon discharged in the open air, so much so that the brown smog that hung over Chicago could be seen from a hundred miles away. People driving in Pittsburgh had to drive with lights on in the middle of the day. Black lung disease was rampant.
These challenges have been met, and overcome, with new technology and determined efforts to maintain clean air in other aspects (it was not only coal that contributed to the smog problems), yet coal has remained the whipping boy for the “green” enviroweenies. In their frantic efforts to keep the genie in the bottle, they have resorted to getting carbon dioxide declared a “pollutant” when it is in fact a very essential plant food, and the basis of the highly corrosive oxygen we must breathe in every minute of every day.
If coal is heated to near incandescent temperatures, in the absence of oxygen, virtually all the volatile constituents are driven off, including most importantly, sulfur compounds, and collected for further industrial use. The remaining product, called coke, is nearly pure carbon, which, when maintained at a glowing heat, has the capability of turning water vapor into a mixture of carbon monoxide, a very good fuel in its own right, and molecular hydrogen, the cleanest burning fuel available, and whose only end product is - water vapor.
Carbon monoxide is poisonous to life, in that it competes with oxygen to such a degree, that the very cells of living material die in its presence. But as noted, it is a most excellent fuel when burned in an excess of oxygen, and the end product is carbon dioxide, which, as noted above, is NOT a pollutant, but highly essential for all life on earth.
Are those miners who were unemployed in 2016 still waiting for their phone to ring with a return to work call?
Cheap energy is on the way to the steel and aluminum industries again.
I hope they bring back coal fired power plants online. Anyone remember the year Texas had an electrical shortage with disastrous results? Sky high prices and blackouts when windmills froze up and lack of solar resulting in some deaths.
I’m pleased...The resource is good forever...
Coal is dying but it should be allowed to die a natural death. The government should not be trying to kill it off as was done under Obama and Biden.
Waiting for the end of Ethanol.
I wonder if this is still in play -
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff? (*Crinton)
https://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/indocoal.htm