Germany re-starting 21 coal power plants
(www.msn.com)
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You can't just re-start coal burning power plants easily. If the power plant has been shut down for more than 5-years... it's extremely costly and time consuming to bring it back online. When a coal plant has been shut down for 10-years, it takes nearly the same time, effort and cost as a new power plant would cost.
In the best of times, you could restart an older mothballed plant within 3-6 months. These days, with parts not available, electronics no longer easily available... it may take 6-months to a year to bring all of the old coal burning power plants on line at full capacity.
Maybe they will be on line in time for the coming mini ice age due to the solar minimum.
Well, apparently France can restart their coal fired plants for THIS winter…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/28/energy-crisis-government-to-restart-coal-plant-after-power-company-tsars-warning/
I seem to recall reading the French rather then wholesale shut them down. Planned on keeping a Maintenance Crew/Skeleton crew on staff at the plants for a few years to ensure the plants could be brought back online relatively quickly in the case of emergency.
...and who is going to supply the coal ?
Germany has coal mines.
Probably import it. Which should spell great news for West Virginia.
Convert all those American bioweapon labs in Ukraine into coal fired power plants.