Posted on 07/08/2021 10:06:13 AM PDT by xzins
Coal is — by far — the cheapest way of turning a raw material into a BTU. If we spent just a tenth of the effort into making coal more effective and the waste products cleaner that we do for electric vehicle batteries, we’d have those flying cars that I was promised in the year 2000 by now.
The US Energy Information Administration currently estimates that we have approximately 473 Billion tons of recoverable coal in the United States. This is nearly half the known reserves in the entire world and over 500 years worth at current consumption rates. Villainizing coal is about devaluing the United States energy reserves not saving the planet.
“Why do we STILL need coal?”
Electricity, PVC, steel, cement, aluminum, aspirins, soap, dyes, solvents, plastics,fibers such as rayon or nylon, activated carbon, carbon fiber or silicon metal, air purification and water filters, kidney dialysis, machines....for openers.
Because it’s plentiful.
Ask the fools of California how well it works depending on wind and solar to power their air conditioning when it is 115 out side and you are caught in a rolling black out.
Meanwhile China i building a new coal plant every week???
And steel.
And that my friends is the bottom line....reliable and affordable electricity is still here because of C-0-A-L.
Yes and turning americans/america into a country of thin skinned gender illiterats pansy boyz is all about letting the PRCs in to get all our energy on the cheap:-) Yep walk right in and welcomed too:-)
No kidding. Nothing against the guy quoted in the article, but any adult who actually needs this tutorial is an ignorant cretin, I.e., a lib
To run Tesla charging stations.
“Go fix the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station if you think this [nuclear] is a great idea”
That’s one reactor. According to Wikipedia we have 96 of them here in America.
And watch out! From Wikipedia:
On 23 August 2020, Forbes reported, that “[the 2020 Democratic Party platform] marks the first time since 1972 that the Democratic Party has said anything positive in its platform about nuclear energy”
Completely unmentioned is the need for metallurgical aka “met” coal: an absolutely critical item for the production of steel. If you don’t have it, you cannot produce steel except from scrap.
Most Americans don’t know what a BTU is....
‘Cuz we don’t want to freeze in the dark?
Christmas presents
#2 A liberal would say “Goodbye Granny!”.
Then sell her belongings and put the money in a tax exempt foundation...
FUEL SECURITY, is the light switch that always works, the extension cord that always powers something up a long ways away, and the satisfaction (security) when you flip it to “off” ... it is actually off and costing us nothing.
You need coal to make silicon (PV), need coal to make steel & cement (Wind).
Ohio apparently wants to FREEZE IN THE DARK. Good luck with that! West Virginia and Kentucky can sell their coal elsewhere.
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