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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
My point was that he did bring back Christmas for all the good little corporations, filling their stockings with very fat permanent tax breaks, and he balanced this by giving coal to all the bad little poor people who live next to the coal plants and breathe in the fumes.
Not true, the wealthy coastline liberals like myself do care. We care about the carcinogens and asthma that comes from burning coal. We care about the intentional disinformation of labeling it "clean coal". We care that the big power companies are doing everything in their ability to prevent people from buying solar. In Florida it is illegal to buy solar except through the local power company. In NY the power companies are putting together a class action suit against the solar companies on bogus charges (we were invited to join the class action suit but declined). Now even though the US has cleaned up its act significantly, it is still a cumulative sum game. When you look at cities in China and India and the smog from their coal you can see just how polluting and deadly it is.
Here is another thing we care about. The price of solar is directly related to the volume of sales. As more solar is sold the price comes down. As of this year solar is now cheaper than coal. If the US, China and India combined forces we could drive the price down incredibly, so much so that you would see it adopted worldwide, just like smart phones. China and India are doing this, but where or where is the US? Are we really going to let this technology go to the Asians like we did with transistors?
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Your wind and solar dreams are only real with their infinite assumptions like snow-free and cloud-free skies with 24 hours of daylight. Your liberal idealistic bias was on full display here, but I do like solar. Where I am, unless there are heavy tax credits, which I could use, there is no way it is economically feasible.
If China and India used the coal scrubber technology we have, the world would be a much cleaner place. That's one reason why the Paris accord was scrapped. It penalized America The Clean for the sins of the world.
I like ground source hump pump technology instead of home coal. I am surrounded by clean-coal-burning power plants. Excellent use of our resources. What really pollutes the air is home-coal, because it is so dirty.