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59. And here endeth the thread.

You are of course absolutely correct.

I work in the energy industry. We have coal, coal, coal, natgas, and some solar/wind.

Our customers are clamoring for more renewable. So they're building it themselves because we're busy maintaining OLD coal plants.

One DUer above mentions that solar plants are small, coal/nuclear are big. We have several massive coal turbines. But all of our natgas, and several of our coal turbines are smaller than our solar/wind locations.

If inexpensive, safe storage shows up for solar/wind power, it'll be the beginning of the end for the dirty stuff as far as I'm concerned. Once the argument about baseload goes away, things could be interesting.

If we had a law that stopped lobbying for clean coal or other bullshit like that, maybe we'd spend our money on newer sources. But that won't happen until we're forced to, or the subsidies switch.

One problem I see coming. There are a LOT of union folks in old coal plants. When you decentralize the power generation to solar farms and wind farms, there may be a big fight from an entrenched employment system.

How sure are we that coal will continue to be king? We bought a coal mine. The seller must be thanking their lucky stars.