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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2239 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From Oil to Solar: Saudi Arabia Plots a Shift to Renewables

Coal, as a power source, is not without utility. As a power source, however, it has externalities that, from a broad perspective, discourage its adoption.

Coal, as a political force, is so fucking tired. When I read economics reports from 1965 talking about the plight of the coal miner and their dwindling employment, I know one thing:

the idea of coal has long since surpassed the utility of coal.





WanderingEng  ·  2239 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh yeah, as a political thing coal is monumentally stupid, like NRA levels of stupid. It should be dead. As a power source it would be nice if it was dead along with all the other awful things civilization does. It isn't, but it's getting there.