And all it took was shutting down 300 coal plants over the last 10 years.
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Great, but that doesn't mean less coal is being burned. The article says the share of coal in the total power of the US has been halved over the last five years but again, how much less coal has been burned? That's the important part.
Only speaking in parts tends to miss this:
On a global scale, energy sources cumulate, they don't replace each other.
You're right, there isn't enough replacing going on. Fossil production must be reduced.
Don’t let drumpf know, he’ll find a way to have it reversed. Remywhen he used usa taxpayer funds (a billion or so usd) to cancel a windfarm?
All to be eaten by glutton data centers. Ugh.
Or torn up by braianwashed regressives.
Stand to reason, the operating costs of a coal fired power station are immense compared to a renewable energy source. They can’t compete. That’s the major reason that industry doesn’t want to build them.
Here in Michigan Trump is using "emergency" orders to keep a coal plant running that the electric company was going to retire over a year ago. The order can only last 90 days but they've just renewed it every time.
Thanks to this bullshit, rates are going up because it's costing so much to keep the thing going we're losing money on it. Consumers Energy doesn't even want to be operating it, they're trying to get it shut down but hur dur coal good can't allow that. And it's not the only one affected by this crap.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/climate/trump-aging-coal-plants-electricity-bills
Maybe we could promise to poison 1 in 4 children as a compromise. At this point it's pretty clear, they actively want innocence to suffer.
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I genuinely couldn’t believe it. Wow.
but experts say coal emits carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and several other pollutant
What the hell is this crap reporting. It's not like this is a contested fact or an opinion.
"Experts say power plants 'burn coal to convert water into steam.'"
I mean, does anyone really know how these things operate?
Sadly from personal experience, no, the general public does not know that coal power plants work by burning coal to boil water, and are horrified at how trashy the concept is.
High-key a great way to persuade them to support renewables. Associate coal with the image of people in underdeveloped countries burning fossil fuels in their own homes to exploit their own preconceived biases.
Alternatively you can depict it as filthy and Victorian. Something that was once an improvement, but these days really only belongs in a museum. You can compare it to child labor and accurately point out that the Victorian era was grimy and disgusting because of how much coal was burned then.
The tide comes in. The tide goes out.
Water, fire, air and dirt; fucking magnets, how do they work?
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The MAGA response "No it didn't! No it didn't! Fox and The Anointed One didn't say so! Fake news! Fake news!"
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bUt WhAtAbOuT wHeN iT's nIghTime u sTUpId LIbS!?!?!
-MF's who have never heard of a battery
Also: Wind is typically stronger when sun is not harvestable.
Just give the solar panels legs so they can walk around the earth following the sun.
They've heard plenty about battery, it's on their arrest records
they're also getting the benefits of solar, despite voting for the moron nixing renewables while peddling coal and oil.
States won by President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election accounted for 74% of all solar capacity installed in the first quarter
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This is actually a pretty major indictment on the US. Coal is one of the worst most inefficient fuel sources for power generation, virtually every other fuel source is an improvement including incineration of food waste.
A good test of how efficient fuel is is to see how much of it you still have left after you've theoretically burnt all of it. The fact that coal smoke is black is a pretty good indication of how bad it is. You're throwing away a good chunk of your fuel.
I love the trivia that there's traces of uranium in coal which go up with the smoke - coal is worse than nuclear in terms of radiological pollution.
When looking if it was feasible to convert coal power plants to nuclear, we found out that most of the coal sites have more radioactivity than is allowed for a future nuclear site
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Surprised the Pedo-in-Chief doesn't immediately halt this so he can get more money from the coal lobbyists
He's been trying! Courts keep overturning it but it's been on and off for both wind and solar construction
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