It was only a matter of time... The Chinese have built hundreds of new coal fired power plants in the past few years. They have had a new coal fired plant come on line every seven to ten days for years now. Japan and other Asian countries are also building a lot of new plants.
We have over 540 billion short tons of coal in known reserves in the United States, the actual amount is most likely higher. We currently use slightly more than 900 million short tons of coal per year to generate over 40% of our electricity consumption in the US. This is highly politicized so accurate figures are getting more and more questionable. This translates to well over 500 years worth of supply at current rates of consumption.
Coal is the most abundant reserve of energy that we have in this country. Attacks on coal are really thinly veiled attacks on the US energy sector and our ability to be energy self sufficient.
b...b...b...but Obozo said he was getting the Chinese to stop the increasing use of coal.... b...b...b...but what about the Paris “climate change” accord??? So liberals have been trashing out our economy while China and India go full throttle, what a plan!!
What sucks is that about the time coal becomes a hot commodity china will have moved on to thorium reactors instead do to the us doe incompetence in handling osk ridge molyen salt reactor potential in the early 70s due to cronyism...
Interesting statistics...
An accurate assessment and well stated.
Natural gas is too valuable to just burn and it will not be plentiful enough in the near long run to fuel our electricity needs.
With natural gas replacing coal as an electricity feed stock your electric rates will “necessarily skyrocket”. That is one thing obastard has said that is absolutely true.