>>28478278
>pulling statistic out of his ass
Retard. You actually believe their lies about this don't you? Coal is the backbone of the grid. It along with nuclear and so some extent natural gas will always be the backbone of the grid no matter where in the world you're trying to build one. It's the backbone of the gird because it's the most efficient way to boil water on demand to spin a turbine. So you can meet peak demand no matter what the weather is like, no matter how much water is in a reservoir and no matter how far away you need to move the power around.

Your local area might be "green" but it's connected to the rest of the grid. So when peak demand happens and your bullshit can't meet said demand your community is forced to buy power at inflated rates from plants generating outside of your area. There are tons of plants that sit idle most of the time then make massive amounts of money because they can be fired up on-demand and sell whatever power they generate to some far away place. This is how the grid works. If coal was truly only 1% of power being generated for the grid there wouldn't be entire towns that only have coal mining as a viable job to make a living wage anymore. They'd all be shut down. But they aren't because coal is still king.

In a world that wasn't fucking retarded every community would have a small nuclear station either nearby or on every few blocks powering local communities. Probably little generators all over the place with larger ones built near lakes in the area to meet peak demands for mid-summer/mid-winter. But you idiots have been fear mongered by propaganda to the point where you won't let anyone build them. You hear the word nuclear and you go full retard because you have no idea how any of this actually works.

>>28478279
The only thing coming out of smoke stacks at modern coal plants is water vapor. All the "dirty" stuff is caught by scrubbers and sold for other purposes now. It's big business.

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