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New England's last coal plants set to shutter, ushering in era of green energy.
Fox News ^ | 4.06.2024 | Thomas Catenacci

Posted on 04/06/2024 5:11:56 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

The final coal-fired power plants in New England are slated to shutter in the coming years, making it the second region to phase out the energy source that powered the U.S. economy for decades.

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KEYWORDS: chinacoal; chinacoalplants; coal; craziness; energy; genocide; globalwarminghoax; greencrap; idiots; murderers; newengland; powerplants; societalsuicide
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To: Danie_2023

One day enough will be enough and those that wish for de-populating will be de-populated quickly....


41 posted on 04/06/2024 6:00:30 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Carriage Hill

Nice clean scrubbed coal plants closed. More Marxist bullsh!7.


42 posted on 04/06/2024 6:00:32 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Carriage Hill

And I’m sure the winters up there won’t be so cold and snowy their solar panels and wind mills will keep them from freezing to death ... “State officials, including Republican governor Greg Abbott,[13] initially blamed[14] the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels.” ... Dallas Texas Deep Freeze of 2021


43 posted on 04/06/2024 6:03:19 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Carriage Hill

“This is national suicide.Thousands will die from heat; millions will die from cold.”

I think this is one of those times when stuff has to get much, much worse before it can get better. The vast majority of people race through life with no cares about politics. You have to stop them cold, smack them in the nose with a rolled-up law, and kick them in the butt. Then they wake up and pay attention.


44 posted on 04/06/2024 6:03:20 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Carriage Hill

Oh calm down man!

It’s all for the “greater good”.

We need to get rid of all these white folks anyways...


45 posted on 04/06/2024 6:06:22 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: JayGalt

I have to agree with you, unfortunately. It ain’t gonna work.


46 posted on 04/06/2024 6:07:32 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Carriage Hill

47 posted on 04/06/2024 6:08:41 AM PDT by red-dawg (They're going to have to pry my gasoline powered car from my cold, dead hands.)
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To: Carriage Hill

I love New England, but it has been ruined by retiring New Yorkers and Bostonians.


48 posted on 04/06/2024 6:09:50 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: tennmountainman
What fuel will keep them warm during the Winter?

Maybe they will burn their furniture. 👎

49 posted on 04/06/2024 6:10:08 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: JBW1949

“One day enough will be enough and those that wish for de-populating will be de-populated quickly....”

Call me skeptical. I figured that day of “enough” would have been when Congress rigged the vote to pass Obamacare, while exempting themselves from it, against the wishes of most Americans.

I later figured that, after eight years of Obamanation and deliberate destruction of the economy by the Marxist Democrats, the nation would be grateful for any leader, like Trump, that did not put America dead LAST in any ‘deal’, for a refreshing change.

Then, in 2020, I again falsely figured that the Marxists stealing an election would have finally been “”enough””. But nooooooo.....

I have since stopped “figuring” in this surreal, bizarro world we now exist in. There is, apparently, no limit to what Americans will now endure on their way to the Hellscape we’re headed for.... thanks to the demonic left now in control of the nation ... and of most of the rest of the world.


50 posted on 04/06/2024 6:10:35 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Carriage Hill

Ya right ,LOL There’s a reason why the word “Mental” is in Environmentalist


51 posted on 04/06/2024 6:10:48 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In rural New England we have more moose families than black families—and we burn wood.

;-)

It is the cities and suburbs who get to freeze due to this stupidity.


52 posted on 04/06/2024 6:13:48 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Carriage Hill

The only way this would make sense is if they put some small nuclear reactors in their place, such as the Westinghouse AP300’s.

But that would make too much sense.


53 posted on 04/06/2024 6:15:04 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
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To: jdsteel

“But that would make too much sense.”

Logic and rational thinking.planning doesn’t apply with leftist eco-wackos.


54 posted on 04/06/2024 6:18:01 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: red-dawg

Next Winter’s going to be very ugly, after a nasty, hot Summer.


55 posted on 04/06/2024 6:19:47 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill
New England's last coal plants set to shutter, ushering in era of green lack of energy.
56 posted on 04/06/2024 6:22:32 AM PDT by Pollard ( Seed Room Wx: 66 degrees - 34% humidity)
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To: Carriage Hill

New England does get the occasional 100-degree plus heat wave...be a shame to see that again this year...a real shame.


57 posted on 04/06/2024 6:24:03 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Carriage Hill

We had three hundred years worth of coal to utilize while fusion reactors get figured out.


58 posted on 04/06/2024 6:25:38 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Danie_2023
Mark 3:27

We do appear to be getting closer and closer to last call.

59 posted on 04/06/2024 6:29:33 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: Carriage Hill
However, the announcement that another U.S. region is on a glide path to a coal-free future earned heavy criticism from some experts who noted the importance of having baseload, dispatchable power generation. While renewable sources like wind and solar are intermittent, or heavily dependent on weather conditions, coal, natural gas and nuclear can quickly be turned on in times of high demand.

This should read Base Load and Dispatchable Power. They are different things.

Base load plants are going to run at full power nearly all the time.

A nuclear power plant will take days to start up and reach full power as will a coal plant.

Any plant that uses steam turbines to generate electricity must be warmed up slowly or suffer damage.

Coal plants in the past (30+ years ago) could be used a dispatchable power. These small old plants would be set as "Spinning Reserve" during periods of high demand. This means that the plant would at operating temperature with its turbine spinning but unloaded.

These old plants where less efficient and did not have pollution controls.

During the Clinton years these old plants lost their EPA exemption for plants that were old and operated infrequently.

Dispatchable power today is primarily Natural Gas Turbines.

These plants can be kept warm and be be brought on-line remotely. Many are also completely unmanned.

The Environmental Extremest even want to do away with Gas Turbines.

60 posted on 04/06/2024 6:29:47 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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