Posted on 10/07/2021 4:19:50 AM PDT by blam
Meanwhile, in NYS...
https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NY#tabs-3
Check out the amount we get from coal.
Then check out our energy prices.
Note to the rest of the nation: You can’t say you weren’t warned.
Fâ China! MAGA
If you want to live, that is.
They’ll just have to give up those new coding jobs for a spell...
the US coal industry is failing to find new miners willing to do the dirty work as demand soars.>>>>>>>>>>
Can’t we retrain a few silicon valley employees?
All those electric cars burn coal to fill up. Imagine coal prices when EV’s begin to really come on line in numbers!
Do coal mining jobs require the vaxx?
wonder what santa will use as substitute stocking stuffers this year...
We were told to learn to code
We should let the free market function. And this includes transparency on any Mine’s safety factors so the workers can make informed decisions to protect themselves.
Wyoming open coal pit haul truck jobs 10 years ago began at 100K starting pay. No experience needed. 3-D training simulators use to teach people how to drive and operate the giant trucks
Coal is nowhere near the dominate energy source in the USA.
Less than 20% is coal. Natural gas is the largest.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
U.S. utility-scale electricity generation by source, amount, and share of total in 20201
Preliminary data as of February 2021
Energy source Billion kWh Share of total
Total - all sources 4,009
Fossil fuels (total) 2,419 60.3%
Natural Gas 1,617 40.3%
Coal 774
19.3%
Petroleum (total) 17
0.4%
Petroleum liquids 10 0.2%
Petroleum coke 8
0.2%
Other gases 11 0.3%
Nuclear 790 19.7%
Renewables (total) 792 19.8%
Wind 338
8.4%
Hydropower 291 7.3%
Solar (total)
91
2.3%
Photovoltaic 88
2.2%
Solar thermal 3
0.1%
Biomass (total) 56 1.4%
Wood 37 0.9%
Landfill gas 10 0.3%
Municipal solid waste (biogenic) 6
0.2%
Other biomass waste 2
0.1%
Geothermal 17 0.4%
Pumped storage hydropower3 -5 -0.1%
Other sources4 13 0.3%
Education and energy: another two areas that politicians and the federal government should have absolutely no business being intimately involved in other than to ensure there is enough fuel for national defense.
Shutting down mines doesn’t help either!
So, we need to get all those people who learned to code back into the mines? Got it.
Autonomous ones are beginning to become available.
The price of coal just has to be high enough to justify the expense.
There is little need for humans to go underground any more.
The MSM told me Coal was bad.
Who wants to get another day older and deeper in debt?
I don’t know, having one fist of iron and the other of steel would be pretty cool
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