There’s a recent video from Hank Green outlining the very compelling argument for abandoning coal power in strictly economic terms. It turns out that even if you ignore the big picture environmental impacts like global warming and acid rain, and you also ignore the localized impacts like air pollution and chemical waste, and you ignore the other negative externalities like long term health effects on the workers, then coal is still hard to justify because natural gas plants are simply more profitable.
Not to say that we should be ignoring any of those things, but just to make a point about how impossible it is to make a good faith argument for coal in today’s world.
There’s a recent video from Hank Green outlining the very compelling argument for abandoning coal power in strictly economic terms. It turns out that even if you ignore the big picture environmental impacts like global warming and acid rain, and you also ignore the localized impacts like air pollution and chemical waste, and you ignore the other negative externalities like long term health effects on the workers, then coal is still hard to justify because natural gas plants are simply more profitable.
Not to say that we should be ignoring any of those things, but just to make a point about how impossible it is to make a good faith argument for coal in today’s world.
https://youtu.be/IfvBx4D0Cms
It’s just a bad fuel in every way. This administration is trying to coerce us to use it