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Pity the WLB
November 13, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Bullshit it seems gets you only so far.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/a-year-...ins-bleak/
Quote:A year after Trump’s election, coal’s future remains bleak
Quote:Three Texas coal plants owned by Vistra Energy Corp subsidiary Luminant are among the latest to close, bringing the number of plants that shut, or plan to, to 265 since 2010 – a figure higher than the 258 plants that remain, according to the Sierra Club, which has campaigned against coal.
Vistra said the closures were forced by lower prices for natural gas and renewable power – and not by environmental regulations.
Duke Energy, one of the country’s largest utilities, has shut down more than 5,400 MW of coal capacity since 2011 and plans to shed another 2,000 MW by 2024.
Over the next decade, Duke plans to invest $11 billion in new natural gas and renewable power – and nothing in new coal-fired generation, said spokesman Rick Rhodes.
A Nov. 2 report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – which has two of the largest coal producers in its district, Peabody Energy Corp and Arch Coal Inc – said coal-fired power plants “may eventually become obsolete.”
And thanks to the arrogant orange shit, we are alone in the world when it comes to the Paris Accords.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...41996.html
Quote:Syria signs Paris Agreement - leaving US only country in the world to refuse climate change deal
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RE: Pity the WLB
November 13, 2017 at 8:50 pm
One day a lot of people may be sitting in their palaces freezing their butts off in a blizzard because they won't have any electricity.
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RE: Pity the WLB
November 13, 2017 at 8:57 pm
The industry doesn't seem to be paying any attention to him. We're drowning in natural gas and they don't want/need coal. What's he going to do? Order them to burn coal?
He may think he has that power but he doesn't. Besides, the natural gas industry would have him killed.
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RE: Pity the WLB
November 13, 2017 at 11:06 pm
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What about Don Junior being caught working with Wikileaks
Quote:When WikiLeaks first reached out to Trump Jr. about putintrump.org, for instance, Trump Jr. followed up on his promise to “ask around.” According to a source familiar with the congressional investigations into Russian interference with the 2016 campaign, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, on the same day that Trump Jr. received the first message from WikiLeaks, he emailed other senior officials with the Trump campaign, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, telling them WikiLeaks had made contact. Kushner then forwarded the email to campaign communications staffer Hope Hicks. At no point during the 10-month correspondence does Trump Jr. rebuff WikiLeaks, which had published stolen documents and was already observed to be releasing information that benefited Russian interests.
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“Hey Don. We have an unusual idea,” WikiLeaks wrote on October 21, 2016. “Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns.” WikiLeaks then laid out three reasons why this would benefit both the Trumps and WikiLeaks. One, The New York Times had already published a fragment of Trump’s tax returns on October 1; two, the rest could come out any time “through the most biased source (e.g. NYT/MSNBC).”
It is the third reason, though, WikiLeaks wrote, that “is the real kicker.” “If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality,” WikiLeaks explained. “That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.” It then provided an email address and link where the Trump campaign could send the tax returns, and adds, “The same for any other negative stuff (documents, recordings) that you think has a decent chance of coming out. Let us put it out.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...ks/545738/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Pity the WLB
November 14, 2017 at 4:59 am
(November 13, 2017 at 8:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The industry doesn't seem to be paying any attention to him. We're drowning in natural gas and they don't want/need coal. What's he going to do? Order them to burn coal?
He may think he has that power but he doesn't. Besides, the natural gas industry would have him killed.
While that's a valid observation and we certainly don't want to look like Pittsburgh did in the 1950s or like China does today https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11...r-combined the supply of natural gas will eventually vanish and we could end up without anything. We need to modernize the coal power plants on an on-going basis for that rainy day.
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RE: Pity the WLB
November 14, 2017 at 2:58 pm
Talking of Trump it seems his competency is being seriously questioned.
Quote:Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, explained the reason for Tuesday's public hearing.
"We are concerned that the president is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear-weapons strike that is wildly out of step with US national-security interests."
A committee has been set to look into removing his ability to authorise a nuclear strike.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41977120
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