Trump may like coal mining... just not the miners themselves? Looking for less costly ways to get black lung disease... Trump Reconsiders Rules Protecting Miners From Black Lung https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Easy to forget around here that this is a sports website (for a little while still, anyway)... ...what is it that Bill Walton says during one of those interminable streams of consciousness of his...? "...Never mistake activity for achievement..."
You may have missed the fact that exactly one week ago two major solar power plants, with a combined generating capacity of 179 megawatts,shifted into commercial operation on Bureau of Land Management property in southern Nevada. It’s totally understandable, since the Interior Department didn’t even issue a news release(although its Nevada state director did show up for the formal opening ceremony, and provides a quote for a solar firm’s publicity package). The launch of Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2, which deliver electricity to massive data centers in Las Vegas and Reno, highlights the fact that solar power is still expanding in the United States even if President Trump rarely mentions it (despite his talk of a solar-powered border wall). The nation’s solar output rose 47 percent for the first three quarters of 2017, according the Energy Department — and the switch stations mark the first utility-scale energy facility built on BLM land through a streamlined process the Obama administration established in 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...6f67730fb0469e883fc31/?utm_term=.44dd876214d6
That's just silly. Kind of like seeing the moon lander from your friend's backyard, or Bagwell throwing left-handed.
How do you move the electricity from there to where? I'm still pissed they gave up on the supercollider back in the day.
179 MW is small even when compared only to solar plants, there's already Solar Star, Desert Sunlight and Topaz which are in the 550+ MW range. It's not surprising nobody noticed, in the scheme of overall US electricity system, it'll be like Exxon crowing about a new well that adds a few hundred bbd of new production.
Thanks trump! Coal mining deaths skyrocket in 2017 http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/367034-coal-mining-deaths-skyrocket-in-2017
The whole idea of America was innovation and leading. I guess not, we are supposed to be overly concerned with an industry that is quickly dying and is very unlikely to ever comeback. 100 years ago there were nearly 1,000,000 coal miners and now there are barely 50,000. It is a political red herring. Rather than worrying about bending over backwards for coal, encourage innovation.
Oil Rigs are beautiful to look at off your coastline. I am sure he is wondering when they can be setup near Florida.
