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Home Front: Politix
Kerry: 'Our Coal-Fired Power Plants Have to Begin to Phase Out'
2015-12-10
[CNSNEWS] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 told a Gay Paree audience that "our coal-fired power plants have to begin to phase out."

At an event hosted by the tech site Mashable along with the U.N. Foundation on Monday, Kerry said: "President B.O. has put in place one of the most ambitious national climate action plans in the world. We've doubled our car efficiency and truck--We're requiring our coal-fired power plants have to begin to phase out."

Kerry made the statements while discussing the impact the private sector and the marketplace will have on carbon emissions.

"It's the private sector, the next Elon Musk or Steve Jobs is going to find a way to do battery storage for alternative and renewable energy, or we're going to find a way to burn energy, or maybe this dream of fusion is going to be accelerated and actually have a commercial viability," Kerry said.

"I don't know the answer, but I have absolute confidence in the ability of capital to move where the signal of the marketplace says 'go' after Gay Paree.
"Signal of the market place"? That's a little market for you, isn't it Jahwn? Your minders will not approve, and ValJar will slap you around when you get home. Not to mention Tay-rasa...
Posted by:Fred

#18  Oil tankers are being built now for shipping with natural gas power. Massive upgrade for future cost savings.
Posted by: Dale   2015-12-10 19:56  

#17  About 3 years ago the coal fired plant near m E converted to natural gas. It's better than coal and at today's prices is cheaper.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2015-12-10 17:11  

#16  Well, grom, we import just about everything else from China...
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-12-10 16:26  

#15  Probably thinks you can import electricity from China---just like everything else.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-12-10 15:01  

#14  Meanwhile, China is building 155 new coal-fired power plants on its standard design. Kinda negates everything, especially when they will be run approx 50% capacity. How does that factor in your global-warming equation, Jawn?

HERE are some cost breakdowns on nuclear vs coal fired power plants.

HERE is a site discussing nuclear power versus other sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal.

The problem with O&Co's unicorn fart approach to energy is that we don't have a transition to get out of coal. The near term solution would be to convert to natural gas from coal. I do not know the logistics of this and where we are. You have a bunch of people at the top that have NO background in physics and engineering making decisions that have serious consequences to the US economy and security. This is like TD Lysenko under Stalin in the USSR.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-12-10 14:58  

#13  "Kerry: 'Our Coal-Fired Power Plants Most Reliable and Inexpensive-to-Operate Power Plants Have to Begin to Phase Out' (My wife is rich, so we'll be warm, and I don't care if you plebes freeze.)"

FTFY
Posted by: Barbara   2015-12-10 14:31  

#12  Meanwhile China builds its industrial base and we turn our economy to basket weaving.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-12-10 14:26  

#11  Nuclear power requires fuel too, and that supply has its limits too. For the past couple of decades it's been supplemented by 'burning' US & USSR bomb material. Long-term, we would need to move to breeder reactors - either converting U238 or Th232.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-12-10 13:19  

#10  If they were serious they'd have been building nuclear plants for 7 years now and they'd start coming on line about now. That would have been a legacy worth the history books. Cut oil out of the economy entirely and leave Saudi Arabia pounding sand.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-12-10 12:38  

#9  Kerry doesn't need to be right, he's just noisy.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2015-12-10 12:15  

#8  All the unicorns have eaten their beans and are ready to produce.
Posted by: Grunter   2015-12-10 12:09  

#7  Our new power plants will be fueled by outrage.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-12-10 11:38  

#6  And they will be replaced with power plants that run on happy thoughts and dreams!
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-12-10 11:12  

#5  It is a bad idea to phase out coal-fired power plants but then Kerry and Obammer have a lot of bad ideas. Where they going to get the replacement power from the shut down plants? Solar? Not likely. Water? I don't see any call for new dams to be built due to the environmentalists. Wind? That's not going so well and it's good only when there is a wind available. Nuclear? Many are more opposed to nuclear more than they are coal? Jeebus, I'll be glad when these two fade off the national scene. They are an embarrassment and dangerous to boot.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-10 10:00  

#4  Shouldn't he confine his pontificating to State Department stuff? What about Syria, Jahwn? Ukraine? Russian expansionism? Iran and the Bomb? Venez .. you know.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-12-10 09:51  

#3  Pluck the electicity from thine own castle
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-12-10 06:38  

#2  Massive good paying job losses. Tax revenues gone in the millions. "It's the private sector, the next Elon Musk or Steve Jobs is going to find a way to do battery storage for alternative and renewable energy, or we're going to find a way to burn energy, or maybe this dream of fusion is going to be accelerated and actually have a commercial viability," Kerry said. Not with government controls as they are now. Make a wish.
Posted by: Dale   2015-12-10 06:02  

#1  .or we're going to find a way to burn energy,.....

Now this is a bit of genius.

Historically, we have burned fuel to make energy. But what if we could burn energy directly? Take that, Thermodynamics!
Posted by: SteveS   2015-12-10 00:31  

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