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dave walker's avatar

Nailed it as always! Keep spreading the word and with a little luck and some power outages voters and politicians will get educated!

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Sid Abma's avatar

We need President Trump back in power. He is an Energy First President. He is pro coal.

America has railroads running across America, from the coal mine locations to every city. AI is becoming the next major trend and it requires a lot of electricity (alongside all the EV's) The solar and wind farms are nowhere near the city locations where all this electricity is needed.

America has to get out of debt and not further into it with more "stupid produced" electricity and miles more high tension power lines.

Smaller (300 to 500 MW) coal fired power plants can be constructed very near to a rail spur line in an area close to a large electrical substation. At this capacity they can ramp up & down pretty nice, similar to a natural gas power plant. Coal power plants with today's technology can operate almost as clean as a natural gas power plant.

Natural gas is good but it takes a lot to get the natural gas moved to these locations if it is not yet there. It's not going to be all that many more years when the existing solar and wind farms need to be completely refurbished, and what will that all entail and cost?

We have better options.

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