He could directly pay each one about $9,000 for getting a new job. This probably doesn't sound like much money, but a lot of these coal jobs are in extremely p

He could directly pay each one about $9,000 for getting a new job. This probably doesn't sound like much money, but a lot of these coal jobs are in extremely poor areas of the US. It's a life-changing amount of money for many of them. Of course the real problem is that most renewables are too efficient. They don't need that many people. Once the wind turbine, solar panels, or batteries are installed they don't need someone out there every day working on them. Not the way that coal miners have to keep digging coal. It's the kind of job that puts itself out of business over time.