End of Coal Industry Inescapable
Those looking for a blow-by-blow description of the demise of the coal industry in the Powder River Basin in the north-central U.S. can get it in the article linked above.
Readers will note that this trend, now accelerating in its 12th year, is inexorable. Even if a president, if one could be imagined, who had absolutely zero interest in protecting the health and safety of the American people and would do everything in his power to keep the electricity grid-mix as filthy dirty as he possibly could, he’d still be powerless to prop up coal.
Craig,
The ” End of Coal Industry” is neither inescapable or occurring, no matter how many fantasies and myths you peddle!
The use of coal in China and the rest of the world is steadily increasing. Even as a percentage of electric energy generation, coal remains dominant.
Global electricity demand rose by 4% in 2018, nearly twice as fast as overall energy demand, and at its fastest pace since 2010.
Coal grew more than any other single source of generation in 2018, accounting for 46% of total additional generation. With a 44% market share, it remains the largest source of electricity generation.
The highest increase in coal power generation took place in China, followed by India, Africa and the developing nations, more than offsetting reductions in the United States and Europe.
Only in the USA, and Europe where a combination of competition from cheap natural gas and a long period of government led opposition has the industry suffered from a lack of investment and modernization.
Coal still remains 29% of US electricity production.
Nor do modern coal fired power plats produce harmful emissions, it fact, they are the only non-nuclear power source which can be beneficial in reducing overall industrial emissions.
The reason you are afraid to debate coal generation, is because you know in your heart the myths and fear mongering you have been peddling so long, have been overtaken by modern “clean technology”!
What will you do when the American natural gas boom is over? When US natural gas is needed for fertilizer and rising export demand to Asia drives up NG prices?
The cost of returning to coal maybe too expensive to allow the US to compete with China,India and other rapidly industrializing nations.
Or is that the real agenda, a hatred for US industry and US workers? A sort of weird anti-American self loathing shared by all leftist ideologues……..