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You'll never live to see the end of coal use in this country..........
You`re correct but we`ll never live to see a coal comeback either. The 3,000 miles of dead streams in my state are reason enough to stop mining coal. We`re still treating mine acid discharges from mines that have been closed for 60-70 years.
Would that include all the power suppliers who are closing down coal plants and switching to natural gas?
No just one of the largest utility in the country........
And I build and operate intermediate load NG fired power plants. We're building them left and right but we'll run coal to at least 2050......
You`re correct but we`ll never live to see a coal comeback either. The 3,000 miles of dead streams in my state are reason enough to stop mining coal. We`re still treating mine acid discharges from mines that have been closed for 60-70 years.
Same back where I grew up in Southern Appalachia. The mines in that area closed 35 years ago. In many areas the land is ruined for eons.
Again the ignorance shows on this forum if it wasn't for coal you would be sick,cold and hungry ...
Every modern device [plastics],medicines,food preservatives,building materials,solvents all come from coal.
Right now the flat yard in Portsmouth Ohio has tracks full of coal,coke something that Obama didn't do ... I saw a loaded BNSF eastbound coal train from out west going to the old K.O.T plant NS rr runs where they blend coal to customers specification usually power plants.Very rare to see coal going east so something is going on.
Coal might be black and ugly to some but aren't diamonds formed from coal at high pressure so don't judge the cover read the book on coal.
Same back where I grew up in Southern Appalachia. The mines in that area closed 35 years ago. In many areas the land is ruined for eons.
Inez Kentucky they have an airport now due to mountain top removal and other developments that wouldn't ever occurred [4 lane highway thru the mountains].NS railroad land development group reclaimed land built a golf course but those days coal was still King Wolf Creek was a humming with diesel engines ...
America is a large country with vast differences in population and industry so it's admittedly hard to do but I do hope we get someone in office one day that puts their priority on a clean America, electric cars, and solar.
After healthcare of course.
I think it's great that coal is on its way out. If we can find a transition for coal miners to something safer and easier that would be great. I understand how hard it is on cities who rely on coal mining.
America is a large country with vast differences in population and industry so it's admittedly hard to do but I do hope we get someone in office one day that puts their priority on a clean America, electric cars, and solar.
After healthcare of course.
I think it's great that coal is on its way out. If we can find a transition for coal miners to something safer and easier that would be great. I understand how hard it is on cities who rely on coal mining.
Community colleges in coal country usually offer free training for fracking jobs. Taking advantage of this makes more sense than sitting on one`s butt for 20 years waiting for a coal job.
I guess his dream of bringing coal "back" is just part of his overall dream of taking us backward overall. Back to the days of coat-hanger abortions, for instance.
It seems like most people today are obsessed with the 1950s and want to legislatively force the clock back. Fact of the matter is though, they cannot do that and all they are doing is irreversibly destroying our society and our economy.
Again the ignorance shows on this forum if it wasn't for coal you would be sick,cold and hungry ...
Every modern device [plastics],medicines,food preservatives,building materials,solvents all come from coal.
Right now the flat yard in Portsmouth Ohio has tracks full of coal,coke something that Obama didn't do ... I saw a loaded BNSF eastbound coal train from out west going to the old K.O.T plant NS rr runs where they blend coal to customers specification usually power plants.Very rare to see coal going east so something is going on. Coal might be black and ugly to some but aren't diamonds formed from coal at high pressure so don't judge the cover read the book on coal.
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