The president of United Mine Workers of America said Wednesday that the coal industry is not "back," despite President Donald Trump's claims.
Roberts said Trump cutting back some of the Obama-era regulations that limited coal-fired power plant emissions "perhaps kept the coal industry ... in existence" but that plants are still closing "dramatically" and the market keeps shrinking. He said coal mining jobs will continue to be lost because of what he called bad public policy, and "eventually there will be no market here or only the strongest companies will survive."
Roberts also pleaded with the President to tweet that he believes coal miners who are entitled to pensions should have them. He noted that Trump has repeatedly said he loves coal miners, and he asked the President to "just make us 15 seconds of his day," adding that he wasn't being critical of Trump.
I see this stretching off from horizon to horizon with a distant city at the other end, lined with agricultural robot tillers and pickers and cars that run on tracks, planting and harvesting and feeding the city beyond with food and energy all bathed in crystal clean air and all surrounded by wilderness.Meanwhile in Green Energy News
Solar and Agriculture can actually compliment each other.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/crops-under-solar-panels-can-be-a-win-win/
Turns out solar panels work well with certain shade loving hand-picked crops. The crops become much more water efficient, using more CO2, while the plants end up dropping the temperature on the arrays increasing electrical production by up to 3% during the summer.
I see this stretching off from horizon to horizon with a distant city at the other end, lined with agricultural robot tillers and pickers and cars that run on tracks, planting and harvesting and feeding the city beyond with food and energy all bathed in crystal clean air and all surrounded by wilderness.
Meanwhile in Green Energy News
Solar and Agriculture can actually compliment each other.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/crops-under-solar-panels-can-be-a-win-win/
Turns out solar panels work well with certain shade loving hand-picked crops. The crops become much more water efficient, using more CO2, while the plants end up dropping the temperature on the arrays increasing electrical production by up to 3% during the summer.
But the Chinese engineers, metalworkers and laborers who built coal-fired power plants must be kept employed. And, Cunningham says, "many are going abroad." They are building energy projects for developing nations, largely as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
Don't worry China is more than happy to spread the coal-love throughout the world and not a peep out of all you phony liberals as long as they provide all your cheap goods and those nasty coal plants aren't located in your back yard, but just keep on hating on those deplorables,
Unlike the Chinese who are at least trying to take care of their workers in the coal industry,
Don't worry China is more than happy to spread the coal-love throughout the world and not a peep out of all you phony liberals as long as they provide all your cheap goods and those nasty coal plants aren't located in your back yard, but just keep on hating on those deplorables,
Unlike the Chinese who are at least trying to take care of their workers in the coal industry,
because they realize keeping people busy and productive is better than abandoning them as some sort of deplorables to be ridiculed like is so common by the elitist liberals in America and somehow with all that higher education couldn't see that when you abandon the middle class, and they lose all hope bad things happen, like the last Presidential election showed.
if only the opposing candidate had proposed a plan to retrain workers whose coal jobs are being displaced by a changing energy market. Surely that would have secured their victory
I love the idea overall, but how does this specific part work? I would expect plants underneath the solar panels to have zero effect on the heat levels of the panels themselves, unless they're comparing it to solar panels with white rocks or asphalt underneath or something.while the plants end up dropping the temperature on the arrays increasing electrical production by up to 3% during the summer.
Tell me again which party abandoned the middle class, you bleating sheep.Don't worry China is more than happy to spread the coal-love throughout the world and not a peep out of all you phony liberals as long as they provide all your cheap goods and those nasty coal plants aren't located in your back yard, but just keep on hating on those deplorables,
Unlike the Chinese who are at least trying to take care of their workers in the coal industry,
because they realize keeping people busy and productive is better than abandoning them as some sort of deplorables to be ridiculed like is so common by the elitist liberals in America and somehow with all that higher education couldn't see that when you abandon the middle class, and they lose all hope bad things happen, like the last Presidential election showed.
Hillary actually had proposed funding for retraining for example for workers in these types of industries. Of course it didn't sound as good as "we're bringing coal back"!! "Clean coal"!! Etcbecause they realize keeping people busy and productive is better than abandoning them as some sort of deplorables to be ridiculed like is so common by the elitist liberals in America and somehow with all that higher education couldn't see that when you abandon the middle class, and they lose all hope bad things happen, like the last Presidential election showed.
Don't worry China is more than happy to spread the coal-love throughout the world and not a peep out of all you phony liberals as long as they provide all your cheap goods and those nasty coal plants aren't located in your back yard, but just keep on hating on those deplorables,
Unlike the Chinese who are at least trying to take care of their workers in the coal industry,
because they realize keeping people busy and productive is better than abandoning them as some sort of deplorables to be ridiculed like is so common by the elitist liberals in America and somehow with all that higher education couldn't see that when you abandon the middle class, and they lose all hope bad things happen, like the last Presidential election showed.
Don't worry China is more than happy to spread the coal-love throughout the world and not a peep out of all you phony liberals as long as they provide all your cheap goods and those nasty coal plants aren't located in your back yard, but just keep on hating on those deplorables,
Unlike the Chinese who are at least trying to take care of their workers in the coal industry,
because they realize keeping people busy and productive is better than abandoning them as some sort of deplorables to be ridiculed like is so common by the elitist liberals in America and somehow with all that higher education couldn't see that when you abandon the middle class, and they lose all hope bad things happen, like the last Presidential election showed.
I love the idea overall, but how does this specific part work? I would expect plants underneath the solar panels to have zero effect on the heat levels of the panels themselves, unless they're comparing it to solar panels with white rocks or asphalt underneath or something.
This is great, do we have any data on the adoption rate of this "technique"? I don't see a reason why this wouldn't scale to larger fields and I'm guessing there are much larger fields than the one pictured.
Also that Roberts guy can go fuck himself, he's getting exactly what he deserves and so do all the miners that voted for this disaster.
You know, I'm aware of plants emitting moisture and absorbing light. I should have been able to 2+2 that shit together. Thanks for making me look like an idiot, jerk face.Well normally solar arrays are put on roofs, or out on bare land.
Plants control their temperatures by opening their stomata and letting out water vapor providing some cooling. Also a small percentage of the incoming sunlight that hits the crops doesn’t get turned into heat. It’s used for photosynthesis and ends up as the chemical bonds in the carbohydrates the plant produces.
If you look at a thermal image plants are always cooler than the surroundings
You know, I'm aware of plants emitting moisture and absorbing light. I should have been able to 2+2 that shit together. Thanks for making me look like an idiot, jerk face.
Anyhow yeah, I'd love me some hedgerows of solar panels with flowers/veggies growing under them. Bring it on.
Don't worry China is more than happy to spread the coal-love throughout the world and not a peep out of all you phony liberals as long as they provide all your cheap goods and those nasty coal plants aren't located in your back yard, but just keep on hating on those deplorables,
Unlike the Chinese who are at least trying to take care of their workers in the coal industry,
because they realize keeping people busy and productive is better than abandoning them as some sort of deplorables to be ridiculed like is so common by the elitist liberals in America and somehow with all that higher education couldn't see that when you abandon the middle class, and they lose all hope bad things happen, like the last Presidential election showed.
- The decline of coal-fired power could mean the fuel generates just 11% of the United States' electricity by 2030, according to new analysis by Moody's Investors Service.