I am pointing out the fact that coal-fired plants ARE being built left and right. Wind farms are also being built, but nowhere nearly enough of them to avoid the coal plants, sadly.
In the US, a number of gas-fired plants are switched to coal when it is feasible. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
In response to a complaint that coal is painted 'the' alternative to nuclear by some. It's not the fact, it's the relevance. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
As long as the debate is on "what to build" (supply-side issues rather than demande side issues) and that wind is not seen as a reliable (nor, by many, cheap) baseload source, then politicians and utilities will choose between coal and nuclear.
Coal is much less opposed than nuclear, and thus coal is being built. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Yes, that's why I didn't claim you actually made that claim, only that it can be read thus.
That unnecessarily and unfairly constrains the debate to the narrowness of most politicians' views about wind power and load distribution today. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
