After years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants, I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL.
Far From Death, Coal is in Rebirth
A source of dirty soot, smog, and adverse respiratory health in urban areas, coal was the classic sunset industry in the West. But local politics and swing states matter in US elections, as failed presidential-hopeful Hillary Clinton found out to her cost in 2017.
She claimed her biggest regret was doubling down on ex-President Obama’s “war on coal” and proclaiming on her campaign trail that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
At the national level, the extraordinary surge in projected electricity demand driven by exponential growth in AI, data centres, and crypto-mining has taken centre stage.
In a video interview on the sidelines of the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston two weeks ago, US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said that the country should restart shuttered coal-fired power plants under President Donald Trump’s national energy emergency declaration:
“I think as part of the national energy emergency which President Trump has declared we’ve got to keep every plant open. And if there have been units at a coal plant that have been shut down, we need to bring those back on.”
The Interior Department said in an email to Reuters it was committed to “revitalizing the coal industry through the reduction of regulatory barriers and the promotion of energy independence.”
Secretary Burgum said, “We got to keep every coal plant open…. there is no Energy Transition but Energy Addition…we need to avoid the mistakes made by the UK and Germany of deindustrializing…we need abundant, reliable, low-cost energy.”
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Coal Reclaims Its Throne
Coal is what physicists call a “dense” energy source. A Tesla battery weighs over 500kg and requires 25-50 tons (i.e., thousands of kgs) of minerals to be mined, processed, and transported.
Yet, the Tesla battery’s stored energy is equivalent to a mere 30kg sack of coal. That sack of coal, of course, is cheap, versatile, and readily transportable.
And the Tesla battery merely stores power, you still have to get the electrons from elsewhere.
Unlike oil and natural gas, coal is a “non-political” fuel. It is the world’s most abundant energy resource. Its deposits are spread widely, if unevenly, around the world.
Its biggest exporters [ranked] are Indonesia, Australia, Russia, the US, Colombia, and Canada. In Asia, China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia are among the world’s largest consumers of coal and its largest producers. They depend heavily on it for their energy and, hence, national security.
Coal, commonly vilified for being the dirtiest fossil fuel, is in fact, a success story of scientific progress. Key pollutants from coal combustion in power generation plants have fallen dramatically with technological improvements over the past several decades with the development of high-efficiency, low-emission plants.
These 4th-generation “ultra-supercritical” plants have dramatically reduced emissions of pollutants that adversely affect human health, including carbon monoxide, lead, sulfur dioxide (by 98%), oxides of nitrogen (83%), ground-level ozone, and particulate matter (99.8%).
The major remaining emission by coal power plants, carbon dioxide, contrary to common perception, is not a pollutant. Indeed, it is vital to plant growth and, hence, human life.
Consistent with President Trump’s caps-on remarks on “BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL”, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has requested permission from the White House to reverse the 2009 “Endangerment Finding” that allowed the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a “health threat” during the Obama and Biden years.
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The lunatics in the US green energy cult forgot to tell India and China as both keep raising their usage of coal. Hurray. Cheaper and much more dependable than solar and wind. No more toxic than what the murder pilots are releasing with chemtrails.
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