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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
by 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 agoExcept 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...