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White House will dump $700M of public funds into costly, unreliable coal again

40 points by Bender

by atmavatar

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Maybe if we start pushing coal again, we'll get some new Silent Hill games.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
See: https://www.historyandheadlines.com/may-27-1962-the-real-sil...

by HDBaseT

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I don't see exactly how coal is "unreliable".
I've had more power outages with the switching to green energy production than I ever had whilst coal was king.
The 'coal is unreliable' narrative comes from the fact our power stations are 50 years old. Not that the resource or the method to extract energy out of it is unreliable.

by Havoc

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Another whopper of an idea from the trump administration
Next up - lead back in petrol to lower IQs

by 866-RON-0-FEZ

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Here's a non-smug, non-flamebait source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/climate/trump-coal-plants...

by morninglight

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The Stanley Steamer runs very reliably on coal, wood or even paper ballots!