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Kerry: 'Our Coal-Fired Power Plants Have to Begin to Phase Out'

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Posted by Fred 2015-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 00:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Pluck the electicity from thine own castle

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-12-10 06:38|| 2015-12-10 06:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 09:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 And they will be replaced with power plants that run on happy thoughts and dreams!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-12-10 11:12|| 2015-12-10 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Our new power plants will be fueled by outrage.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-12-10 11:38|| 2015-12-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 All the unicorns have eaten their beans and are ready to produce.

Posted by Grunter 2015-12-10 12:09|| 2015-12-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Kerry doesn't need to be right, he's just noisy.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-12-10 12:15|| 2015-12-10 12:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 13:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile China builds its industrial base and we turn our economy to basket weaving.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-12-10 14:26|| 2015-12-10 14:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 14:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 14:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Probably thinks you can import electricity from China---just like everything else.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-10 15:01|| 2015-12-10 15:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, grom, we import just about everything else from China...

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-12-10 16:26|| 2015-12-10 16:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 17:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-10 19:56|| Front Page Top

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