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> either in a free market o Then why all the anti-coal mining diktats coming down from Brussels?
by paganel 6mo ago
> either in a free market o
Then why all the anti-coal mining diktats coming down from Brussels?
- energy123 6mo agoThe free market installs a tiny amount of coal, and a lot of renewable energy. Whether you believe this means "coal is/isn't cost competitive with renewables in a free market" is a debate about word definitions that I'm not terribly interested in. Brussels is trying to reduce "tiny" to zero, because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons China, like Brussels, is trying to reduce coal for similar reasons. They don't like the air pollution health hazard (fully believable), and they say they don't like global warming (somewhat believable).
- pjc50 6mo agoLarge Combustion Plant Directive: coal incompatible with both traditional air quality measurements and CO2 emissions. Renewables deployment is happening fast. Grid upgrades are not. Batteries .. it depends. Even nuclear darling France has set solar records: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/15/france-germany-set-daily-solar-records-for-april/ https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/15/france-germany-set-da...