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Liberals always scream for action without the means to accomplish the task. What are the alternatives to Coal Powered Plants? Solar? Limited capacity requiring a storage system {batteries or yet to be produced capacitors capable of large storage capacity} Batteries are the only workable storage system for solar. Must also have large amounts of clear days. Next is Wind Power. Inefficient and highly unpredictable. Add to that recently discovered serious medical issues for those unfortunate to live within ear shot. Hydro-electric? Highly inefficient and requires the loss of vast portions of land. Look at the TVA lakes and yet they as well as the Army Corp of Engineer dams in the TVA region produce 10% or less of required need.

That leaves Nuclear , Natural Gas, or Coal, as the three most practical means of electrical power generation for the masses. Nuclear is most efficient but requires eternal waste storage.Still can be dealt with. Units take days to bring on line. That makes either Coal or Gas Turbines as the quickest way to obtain the largest source of power on demand. Steam Powered Generators are the only large scale answer. The possible fuels being Coal, Nuclear, or Natural Gas. Anything else is pie in the sky LIE. Of the three Coal is the cheapest and most aviable fuel source.

Of course there is one other answer if Obama is really serious. I have developed a generator powered by a friction free flywheel and 5 HP electric motor. It produces enough electric power to run 100 homes and the power it generates also keeps the motor running for the flywheel as well. I am looking for a government buy out. :>}

This should be an issue not just to the 26 States that produce coal but also the other 22 that use coal from those states. Only Vermont and Rhode Island do not use coal for Electrical Power Generation.

Net Generation by State by Type of Producer by Energy Source

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epa_sprdshts.html

and coal is used to produce 50% of our electricity
according to the US dept of energy

http://www.energy.gov/energysources/coal.htm

Coal is one of the true measures of the energy strength of the United States. One quarter of the world’s coal reserves are found within the United States, and the energy content of the nation’s coal resources exceeds that of all the world’s known recoverable oil. Coal is also the workhorse of the nation’s electric power industry, supplying more than half the electricity consumed by Americans.

Coal-fired electric generating plants are the cornerstone of America’s central power system.