Multi-sourcing energy is a great way to continue. Building more nuke plants, burning coal, oil, or gas. solar and wind. All can be useful. There are other ways to produce energy as well, many ways.
Hydraulic plates embedded in the roads could easily supply road lighting and traffic light power. These plates can be almost unperceivable since the amount of distance they compress can be small.
I think Trump plans a few more new coal power plants.
A side note: China only has 30 years of coal left. One of the reasons they are doing a bunch of solar and wind. But primarily because the international business has gone soft and they need to keep the factories humming.
In a sense yes. Likely there will be coal extraction operations continuing for the foreseeable future.
Will it survive and remain economical at the current scale it’s at? That’s more of a debatable question. Even disregarding the environmentalists whining and bitching. There’s a lot of financial liability to coal and many things going against it.
With heavy industry. The question of accidents, and disaster isn’t a question of if. It’s a question of when. And even a minor accident in a Mine can quite easily spiral into a major disaster. Then there’s the attrition rates of illnesses in Miners. In an industry already struggling that’s a major concern.
Trump is also seeking to push forward Nuclear Plants as well. Which would take a substantial chunk of coals energy market should they become common place. Renewables are also taking a healthy bite out of their market. Consumer preferences are also changing.
Coal, at least domestically, probably has a couple decades left as a major commodity. And serving as a bridge for power generation until other systems and power generation capacity can come online. It may get half a century internationally. Maybe.
But its relevance and value for power generation is likely going to continue fading. Alternatives like Nuclear are increasingly more efficient and liable to grow in importance now that the Feds are loosening regulations and tossing money at it.
And that’s not even considering the possibility of exotic energy alternatives sitting in Black Projects.
It's decline is forced by government subsidies to wind and solar. Gas is OK.
I had a dear friend protest against "mountain top removal" for coal. "Strip mining" also has long since redeveloped the mined land. I went to those areas in Ohio, and they are BEAUTIFUL!
The Appalachian Mountains have been eroded for centuries or millenia, bringing closer to the surface the wonderful coal just in time for human use! Has anyone thought of that?
The greens and leftists are now-ists: the terrain has to look like they expect and want it to. WHY?? Why is their conception of the ever-changing geological landscape to be preferred??
Coal began to be used in England when it was discovered, for fireplace heat in homes, and for making iron. It was more efficient than wood and they wanted to preserve their living forests.
It is long since that we have smokestacks belching out the unconsumed remnants of coal burning. For one thing, coal contains many valuable by products, not to be wasted! And electric power plants have advanced scrubbers. NONE of our cities (maybe LA!) have pollution enough to discredit coal.
I remember. We had a furnace in the basement that had to be fed with wood or coal. I remember going out with Dad to load the logs he cut, and when we got back, we put them through the basement window. He knew which trees needed to be cut! I also remember the coal truck dumping a load near that basement window, and we shoveled it down. We had coal to plant in each other's stockings! HA!
Then we all helped to keep the furnace going with wood or coal, lest we freeze. The worst was coming back home after a family trip, and the house was cold, and the first person rushed to the basement to fire up the remaining coals with more wood or coal!
Coal is sparkling and beautiful too. Diamonds are also carbon.
Those "Globalist" again. God provided His earth with enough Coal, to sustain its "longevity".
And I believe coal isn’t a “fossil fuel” but can renew on a much shorter timeline. Maybe 75-125 years versus millions.
Btw, try making steel with sunshine, rainbows, and gentle breezes.
That is why Soros has been buying many closing mines. $$ Plans ?
When data centers raise the baseline energy consumption level across the country, ALL forms of power production will be more valuable.
Multi-sourcing energy is a great way to continue. Building more nuke plants, burning coal, oil, or gas. solar and wind. All can be useful. There are other ways to produce energy as well, many ways.
Hydraulic plates embedded in the roads could easily supply road lighting and traffic light power. These plates can be almost unperceivable since the amount of distance they compress can be small.
I think Trump plans a few more new coal power plants.
A side note: China only has 30 years of coal left. One of the reasons they are doing a bunch of solar and wind. But primarily because the international business has gone soft and they need to keep the factories humming.
Northern Dakota is swimming in coal. They could mine that entire state for centuries, if necessary, and it could easily fuel all of America.
In a sense yes. Likely there will be coal extraction operations continuing for the foreseeable future.
Will it survive and remain economical at the current scale it’s at? That’s more of a debatable question. Even disregarding the environmentalists whining and bitching. There’s a lot of financial liability to coal and many things going against it.
With heavy industry. The question of accidents, and disaster isn’t a question of if. It’s a question of when. And even a minor accident in a Mine can quite easily spiral into a major disaster. Then there’s the attrition rates of illnesses in Miners. In an industry already struggling that’s a major concern.
Trump is also seeking to push forward Nuclear Plants as well. Which would take a substantial chunk of coals energy market should they become common place. Renewables are also taking a healthy bite out of their market. Consumer preferences are also changing.
Coal, at least domestically, probably has a couple decades left as a major commodity. And serving as a bridge for power generation until other systems and power generation capacity can come online. It may get half a century internationally. Maybe.
But its relevance and value for power generation is likely going to continue fading. Alternatives like Nuclear are increasingly more efficient and liable to grow in importance now that the Feds are loosening regulations and tossing money at it.
And that’s not even considering the possibility of exotic energy alternatives sitting in Black Projects.
https://archive.ph/SS60L
...an archived link...
...get on it...
Beautiful black coal! A gift from God.
It's decline is forced by government subsidies to wind and solar. Gas is OK.
I had a dear friend protest against "mountain top removal" for coal. "Strip mining" also has long since redeveloped the mined land. I went to those areas in Ohio, and they are BEAUTIFUL!
The Appalachian Mountains have been eroded for centuries or millenia, bringing closer to the surface the wonderful coal just in time for human use! Has anyone thought of that?
The greens and leftists are now-ists: the terrain has to look like they expect and want it to. WHY?? Why is their conception of the ever-changing geological landscape to be preferred??
Coal began to be used in England when it was discovered, for fireplace heat in homes, and for making iron. It was more efficient than wood and they wanted to preserve their living forests.
It is long since that we have smokestacks belching out the unconsumed remnants of coal burning. For one thing, coal contains many valuable by products, not to be wasted! And electric power plants have advanced scrubbers. NONE of our cities (maybe LA!) have pollution enough to discredit coal.
I remember. We had a furnace in the basement that had to be fed with wood or coal. I remember going out with Dad to load the logs he cut, and when we got back, we put them through the basement window. He knew which trees needed to be cut! I also remember the coal truck dumping a load near that basement window, and we shoveled it down. We had coal to plant in each other's stockings! HA!
Then we all helped to keep the furnace going with wood or coal, lest we freeze. The worst was coming back home after a family trip, and the house was cold, and the first person rushed to the basement to fire up the remaining coals with more wood or coal!
Coal is sparkling and beautiful too. Diamonds are also carbon.
Coal is sparkling and beautiful too. Diamonds are also carbon.''
https://youtu.be/O79niS9K5uw?si=0Xvdd-x6JWiHaG4R
AWESOME! And it is truth!
AWESOME! And it is truth!''
...and you can take Cash to the bank..
and we need coal to put into the stockings of our siblings!