Henry Payne for February 08, 2016

It’s about time. Those miners need help, a new line of work in either the wind driven windmills, or the fields of solar glass systems out in the deserts, or teach them how to use computers or become adaptable and drive a limo to parties, airports, or elsewhere.

Just kidding. The coal companies don’t want to spend money on making the remaining jobs safe, and the republicans don’t want to pay for health care for black lung. The real issue is preserving fat profits for the people who conspire to shorten the lives of miners.

My factory was in danger of closing, I went to community college at night to learn programming. Factory closed got a job as programmer. Personal Responsibility in actual practice, not blaming the president for losing my job!

Yeah, that sun may not be there tomorrow, and then where would you be? :P

Payne’s grandfather urged collecting donations for out of work Buggy Whip Factory Workers when autos first came out!

The Unions have supported Democrats for decades.

Eat your peas, guys….

Since we do not have the will to work together in congress in behalf of the public, to deliver an energy transition plan, the market is doing it. Natural gas/fracking are more of a factor in displacing coal, not solar. Solar costs are decreasing at an exponential rate and will become the lowest cost energy source. With Sadoway’s liquid batteries or Musk’s wall mounted lithium batteries energy storage is not an issue on cloudy days. https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_renewable_energy?language=enhttps://www.teslamotors.com/powerwallJapan is strongly motivated to go solar and are investing in research to regain the lead they once had in PV tech and drive down the cost.https://www.technologyreview.com/s/533451/can-japan-recapture-its-solar-power/

Article from 2012. But it isn’t surprising that Payne isn’t aware of the truth.“Power plants that burn one of our most polluting fuel sources, coal, are shutting down because of natural gas prices, market conditions, and decrease in demand— and more of them may be closed in the next decade than originally predicted.”https://www.audubon.org/news/coal-power-decreasing-not-because-regulations

The republicans didn’t give a damn about job losses when Wall Street shut down good paying factory jobs and outsourced them overseas. Why should we be concerned about job losses in one of the dirtiest energy sources available. Global warming is a fact. RWNJ opinions don’t mean sh*t.

The electricity produced by using the natural gas to warm the solar panel produces four times as much energy as the gas alone would do. The numbers are continually improving.You may want to look at the real numbers before you disparage something.

How about a concert to Celebrate the coal miners whose Lives have been Saved by OSHA & the EPA’s rules requiring SAFE Working conditions in the mines?.

Screw Coal! What about the war on whale blubber! All those poor whalers, out of work! Or the war on wood! When’s the last time you saw a good ol’ fashioned wood powered steam engine? Freaking coal.

The EPA’s so called war on coal is actually a war on energy waste. The more efficient we are the less electricity gets consumed. We start shrinking the carbon emissions, moving from coal to cleaner energy and using less.I would like to know for the people who are worried about the coal miners, how they feel about other workers getting laid off for a temporary increase in stock prices. How do you feel about people who don’t have jobs and what do you think their personal responsibility is for getting a new job? How do you feel about paying workers who were laid off?

How many coal miners have “lost their jobs”, because company CEO’s blatantly ignored safety regulations, and gave them death and funerals instead of retirement benefits? Then of course, mountaintop removal has destroyed jobs, rivers, and communities, but hey, it’s more profitable for those same jerks at Murray.

And so….am I suppose to feel bad for an industry the causes health problems and early death for millions???

I have just read where investment in new non fossil forms of energy generation has just recently passed investment in new fossil fuel generation of energy worldwide, as well as in the USA. And this is private investment, not governmental investment.

What you and others like you do not seem to grasp is that non fuel energy investment does not just include one form of such investment. So, always bringing up one failed company in just one such area is just so much bull! How about all of those companies that have brought solar down by orders of magnitude in recent times? To say nothing of the research that is on the verge of making solar actually just be a paint, think of just how much solar that could end up generating?

There is wind, solar, geothermal, tide, and other more experimental forms as well as new fission nuclear. And further up into the future there will be fusion nuclear as well as possible solar generated in space and microwaved down to the earth.

Fossil materials should all be held for non burning uses for the future, and not burned up into the atmosphere!!

No reasonable alternate energy and transporation power proponent is saying tha twe can just shut offf all coal and oil burning power instantly, that would be counter productive. But we should at the very least be very close to the point where all new gneration of such power comes from such renewable sources. And it is indeed the private sector that should be doing this. Perhaps our government and others might just also think about spending at least as much funding on this eissue as we do on military spending?

Heck, even our military itself seems to be thinking in this very direction. After all, our military people themeslves are not so stupid as to think that they can continue to always have easily obtained sources of such fossil fuels. So this might just be one of the areas where we can begin to think properly about such changes? How about that, instead of the constant carping on one failed company in one area??

With fuels already at hand, there really isn’t much need to keep mining massive amounts of uranium, especially given new reactor designs. The problem is that the “energy” industry is still the same fossil fuel folks, buying into all the altertantives, and putting off any real progress, until the last inch of profit is taken from fossil fuels, or we’re all dead, they don’t care which.

https://www.usiter.org/

http://www.techienews.co.uk/9742391/china-just-became-the-world-leader-in-nuclear-fusion-research/