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The CAC needs to butt out as they are only puppets and paid mouthpieces of Leftist organizations that invented climate change as a political power and taxation tool.
Coal burners have been engineered to burn with clean processes to protect the environment and is a win-win economically for other supporting industries as well.
Of course to convert things to natural gas, our electrical bills will be paying for it for the next several years.
If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it!
Still glued to the FOX News Channel, Darrell? Get your head out of the sand and take a deep dive into the scientific literature on climate change, sustainable energy innovations, and the cost-benefits of clean-source power. You’ll find that what you despise as “leftist” ideas are actually doing quite well in the free market world.
Renewables and gas have scaled up so much that maintaining coal plants is now the most expensive option. Even if the climate change factor is removed, it just makes financial sense to ditch coal. It’s an old, outdated form of energy generation with a ton of externalities that have to be dealt with (like coal ash) that are significantly less of an impact with gas, renewables, and energy storage systems. The jobs argument falls flat too. Broadway theatre employs more people than the coal industry (87,000 vs. 62,000, respectively). In terms of total share of the population participating in the labor market (roughly 207.5 million, give or take some), it’s barely a blip on the radar.
Having spent time in the Petersburg, Harding Street, and the old and new Eagle Valley Plant, I can tell you there is nothing clean or efficient about coal. When employee training tells you to wash your hands to to avoid arsenic and other heavy metal contamination and special equipment and training are required if you are going to “disturb” the dust, the stuff can be dangerous. Spewing it out of the smokestacks does not make it go away, it only spreads it to everyone else.
Also, the efficiency improvements on the new Eagle Valley plant, hands down makes it cheapest plant in the system to run. It is sort of like replacing an old home furnace with a new 90+% efficient system. On top of being more efficient, therefore using less fuel to produce the same amount of electricity, the byproducts from a natural gas plant is CO2 and H2O.
So yeah, this is a big step in the right direction. It is not all the way there, but it is a big step.
It is broke.
Coal is expensive and isn’t clean by any standard. There is no “win” for anyone by burning coal.
Gas is cheaper and less polluting as a load-following energy source.
But you don’t care – you think this is about politics, when it’s simple math.
Coal power is dead.