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
China used them and it is a funny situation on how there were complications and how they handled them and handled the further complications by their solutions. In the end they all lived happily ever after though in the funniest way possible.
Crinoline!
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
If it’s about capacity factor then most people know about that by now.
I’ve posted a TL;DR somewhere on the thread already and I don’t recall Alec mentioning “capacity factor”, but maybe he referred to the same concept by a different name.
You dint know what capacity factor is? Is the main criteria used for comparing different types of power sources.
The MAGA response “No it didn’t! No it didn’t! Fox and The Anointed One didn’t say so! Fake news! Fake news!”
Coal is black and dusty, solar panels are black and clean, it’s clean coal as promised!
In spite of the idiocracy
All to be eaten by glutton data centers. Ugh.
Or torn up by braianwashed regressives.
Progress be progress. We’ll get there folks.
I genuinely couldn’t believe it. Wow.
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.
Capitalism does work afterall
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First time ? (Spaniard here)
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?
bUt WhAtAbOuT wHeN iT’s nIghTime u sTUpId LIbS!?!?!
-MF’s who have never heard of a battery
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
Part of that is because of how fucking empty the middle fly over states are.
Also: Wind is typically stronger when sun is not harvestable.
Or simply run dirty energy as a last resort. You don’t need to, and shouldn’t be, dependent on a single energy source.
I never thought I’d see the day!
