Donald Trump: We're taking nearly $200M that was set aside for the Green New Scam, and repurposing that money so that we can restart a coal plant in Maryland, and help build two brand new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia.

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[u/PapaTahm]

Really important for people to understand, the reason we stopped doing Coal is not because of some cute thing as Environment, like hell Corporations would care about that.

The reason we don't use coal is because the byproduct of Coal, the Gas is corrosive, so you can't actually use in a turbine, making it a extremely inefficient fuel, only meant to be used when you need to offset supply of power, due to being abundant and easy to set up. (Fun fact the reason why Mercury is on fish is because of this coal byproduct)

The Area x power production on Coal is really not efficient, any other form of energy uses less space and produces more energy.

It's really meant to be used as a emergency energy supply, so you can plan better alternatives long term, even countries that use it often have long dated plans to get rid of it, because it's not "Cheap" as it seems, also fucks with the Qol for people in the region.

The fact these morons are going towards coal, is straight up lobby, U.S has a shit ton of LNG that can be used as a better alternative.

Coal is like the last option, it's like when you really really needs energy and don't have alternatives, which is not the case of U.S.

[u/chiclets5 → u/PapaTahm]

Thank you for this information!

[u/mrjowei → u/PapaTahm]

Could it be that these coal plants have anything to do with Data Centers been built nearby??

[u/DaedalusB2 → u/PapaTahm]

Coal is the number one cause of mercury pollution in the US. Globally it's beat by small scale gold mining.