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How many do actually work in coal industry compared to how many works in the renewable energy industry?

• sjwalter 7y ago
  How many jobs for people with only high school diplomas does renewable energy support? How many does coal mining?
  • rypskar 7y ago
    At least in my part of the world electrician and other crafts are learned at high school level and not at university, so probably not that much difference. Most of construction, installation, and maintenance don't require higher education
    • sjwalter 7y ago
      from a capex perspective maybe you’re right, but coal needs miners forever and allow any man with a strong back to put microwaveable food on the TV tray. Don’t need nearly as many people to maintain a wind farm as you do to feed a coal plant or ten. (I’m not pro coal or anything, but I just don’t share the view that transitioning to higher tech solutions doesn’t have negative externalities—it does but they are borne by people largely outside the conversation, much like global heating).
      • smt1 7y ago
        Except that mining became largely mechanized, especially in the first world, reducing the labor intensity required to mine it: https://wvpolicy.org/blog-series-the-impact-and-future-of-the-w-va-coal-economy/ https://wvpolicy.org/blog-series-the-impact-and-future-of-th...