There isn’t.
You are as dumb as Cole.
years on average 10 days new coal-fired electrical power plant was built in China. India now is doing same thing as China. China may slow down a little bit in its land to build coal-powered plants, but they're going to build or plan to build more than 700 new coal plants around the world as well as home.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/climate/china-energy-companies-coal-plants-climate-change.html
There isn’t enough demand to revive the industry here.
If there were people would do it. There isn’t, which is why mines are closing
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The only things that matters are what people believe. And Trump's base believes that everything is surging now.
And they also believe that there is a crisis on the southern border. Which is completely false, as we've reviewed here, but facts are not important.
coal miners. In particular, production of US low-vol met coal increased significantly, which is a big deal in your area of the woods. Why? Because we are building things again and need that type of coal to make steel.
Another key stat: demand for coal is actually down due to coal power plant closures, a process that was put on turbo under the Obama years and is hard to reverse.
Frank, this is an example of how your propensity to bitch about Trump makes you look royally stupid. Stop citing articles from CNN. Get a grip.
Link: https://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/
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as it continues to be less used.
EIA expects total U.S. coal consumption in 2018 to fall to 691 million short tons (MMst), a 4% decline from 2017 and the lowest level since 1979. U.S. coal consumption has been falling since its peak in 2007, and EIA forecasts that 2018 coal consumption will be 437 MMst (44%) lower than 2007 levels, mainly driven by declines in coal use in the electric power sector.
The electric power sector is the nation’s largest consumer of coal, accounting for 93% of total U.S. coal consumption between 2007 and 2018. The decline in coal consumption since 2007 is the result of both the retirements of coal-fired power plants and the decreases in the capacity factors, or utilization, of coal plants as increased competition from natural gas and renewable sources have reduced coal’s market share.
In 2007, coal-fired capacity in the United States totaled 313 gigawatts (GW) across 1,470 generators. By the end of 2017, 529 of those generators, with a total capacity of 55 GW, had retired. So far in 2018, 11 GW of coal-fired generating capacity has retired through September, and another 3 GW are expected to retire in the final three months of the year, based on data reported to EIA by plant owners and operators. If these plants retire as planned, 2018 will be the second-highest year for coal retirements. Another 4 GW of capacity are planning to retire by the end of 2019.
Only one, relatively small, new coal-fired generator with a capacity of 17 megawatts is expected to come online by the end of 2019. The decline in coal-fired capacity is expected to further reduce coal consumption: EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook expects power sector coal consumption to fall 4% in 2018 and 8% in 2019.
One of the main drivers of coal retirements is the price of coal relative to natural gas. Natural gas prices have stayed relatively low since domestic natural gas production began to grow in 2007. This period of sustained, low natural gas prices has kept the cost of generating electricity with natural gas competitive with generation from coal. Other factors such as the age of generators, changes in regional electricity demand, and increased competition from renewables have led to decreasing coal capacity.
Environmental concerns have also played a role in coal retirements. Coal retirements were highest in 2015, driven in part by stricter emissions standards required by the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule, which went into effect in April of that year for coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. Instead of investing in emissions control technologies, many smaller power plants that operated at lower capacity factors were retired before the new standards were implemented. Some plants applied for and received one-year extensions, which contributed to retirements in 2016.
Link: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37817
Trump removed the governor from the coal production engine, but the engine isn't really that thirsty, unless we find export markets like we have.
Trust me, I am an expert.
Under Obama coal production increased however cheaper fuels undercut the value and need for mining.
This was something pointed out by Obama when Obama first ran for POTUS.
and still you got it wrong.
Mull, ruminate, study, and get back to me why that is or isn't a big deal.
Look, whatever you deal is with mining or miners, your want for coal is not the same as reality.
Under Trump and after his promises, you suckers in the coal industry knew too, coal was being usurped by lower cost and easier to get other energy sources and now more and more coal burning plants are being shut down in greater numbers.
Fuck Trump and all you Trumpenkreigers.
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As a fuel, it’s on its way out.
The industry overall was dying, is dying, and will continue to die.
Trust me, I live in the middle of it.
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Maybe you're just a mining crew wannabe - the boys in the crew are just waiting for ...
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Talk about looking stupid. Get a grip man.
You hate Trump. All of these things can be true at the same time.
You love Trump, but doesn’t make his BS true.
It doesn't matter if the number of mines is 5 or 50 if production and employment rise.
You hate Trump. Causes irrationality. Very sad life. I actually feel bad for you.
A minor production increase from existing facilities , perhaps limited to steel isn’t going to bring it back.
It has no fuel future, everyone is into oil and gas here. NG is where the electric generation market is at.
That’s the rational truth.
I am arguing that Trump has been good for coal. That is obvious to everyone except for you.
Like saying when your wife shows off her too tight new jeans and asks if she's too fat to wear them and you say, it's the new jeans they shrunk on the way back from the store.
scale. He didn’t say that it had no fuel future but that he would help it anyway.
He said he would bring it back which he certainly hasn’t and can’t unless there is fuel generating demand.
You truly are dumb, sorry but it’s a fact.
Australia can't do it all.
Address the point.
Coal is dead as a large scale industry unless there is demand for it as a generating fuel.
Whatever modest increases in production are there it isn’t com9ng back and in fact more profuction facilities are closing.
Trump botism won’t change that.
with 69 MMst exported during the same period in 2017." - EIA
Get a grip Frank. Really.
Also, write clearer. You appeared to be talking about US imports.
You should too.
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Coal plants are closing at a greater rate under the Trump admin than in the Obama admin.
"More coal-fired power plants have closed under Trump than in Obama's first term"
But then, he's a cole expert.
Coal is not a growth industry. Anyone with an IQ over 85 knows that.
And Orange’s promise to bring it back is BS.
inhabitant is running a little less than that.
'We're going to figure out a way to give you better, safer, healthier jobs.'
HRC's gaffes + the bullshit that Trump (though obvious, even then) gave America were causes that forced some people to make decisions they may never have made at their voting precinct.
What doesn't make much sense today is the constant approval ratings he keeps in the mid 30's. His rating should be sub 0 but they are not.
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