[real saxophonist]

Without my glasses, I misread that as ‘Connie Chung Denier’...

[Bon mots]

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Thank God for President Trump!

[Bon mots]

[palmer]

as you force the country from the most efficient energy system to the least efficient. With oil and coal, you simply must dig or drill and then refine it to make it a usable energy source....Conversely, renewables which is a false term since energy can only be used it can never be renewed; takes a massive infrastructure of panels, windmills, batteries and new transportation of the energy

That's the essence of the problem. The fossil sources are concentrated enough that a ton of coal produces about 2,000 kWh of electricity instantly. The coal can be easily moved to where it is needed, to a coal plant with a tiny footprint. OTOH, a 250W solar panel will produce 400 kWh of electricity in a year, or 2,000 kWh in five years. If you want to match the miner mining 10 tons of coal per hour on average, you will need 438,000 panels.

The advantage of the panels is once you have the 438,000 panels installed, you can lay off the miner, shut down to the mine, and have relatively clean and fairly cheap upkeep for 30 to 50 years. Notice that I am leaving out the environmental cost of building the panels, and the cost of installing them which is incredibly tedious and low productivity work.

[PROCON]

Bump, excellent OP-ED.

[LouAvul]

This is his personal commentary and belongs in “bloggers.” He clutters up news.