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Trump Signs Executive Order for "Beautiful Clean Coal" Power and Coal Mining

Posted by freedomforall 2 weeks, 2 days ago to Economics
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Excerpt from The White House:
"Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry. The Executive Order:

Directs the Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council to designate coal as a “mineral” under Executive Order 14241, entitling coal to all of the benefits of that prior Order.
Directs relevant agencies to identify coal resources on Federal lands, lift barriers to coal mining, and prioritize coal leasing on those lands.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acknowledge the end of the Jewell Moratorium, which paused coal leasing on Federal lands.
Requires agencies to rescind any agency policies that seek to transition the Nation away from coal production or otherwise establish preferences against coal as a generation resource.
Directs CEQ to assist agencies in adopting coal-related categorical exclusions under NEPA.
Seeks to promote coal and coal technology exports, facilitate international offtake agreements for U.S. coal, and accelerate development of coal technologies.
Calls for the Secretary of Energy to determine whether coal used in the production of steel meets the definition of a “critical material” and “critical mineral” under the Energy Act of 2020, and if so, add it to the relevant lists.
Pushes for using coal to power new artificial intelligence (AI) data.
INCREASING DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION: President Trump believes that coal is essential to our national and economic security."


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  • Posted by JohnRandALL 6 days, 17 hours ago
    We had a big beautiful coal plant here in Colorado Springs, with a daily coal train coming in from the abundant coal in Northwest Colorado. It worked great. But then, the liberal state government here shut it down, tore it down, now replaced with gas turbines. Their goal is to shut down every remaining coal plant in Colorado. They are almost there.
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  • Posted by KevinSchwinkendorf 2 weeks ago
    As a nuclear engineer, I fully support this order. First of all, for technical reasons, nuclear energy is not really suitable for "load following." Over a 24 hour cycle, power demand follows peaks with reduced demand in between. Demand peaks during dinner time when people are preparing meals, and demand is usually least during the middle of the night when people are asleep. However, there is always a minimum demand, for home heating, powering refrigerators, etc. If a nuclear power plant has to follow these ups and downs, reactor core temperatures also cycle, which is not good for long term materials performance. Nuclear reactors perform best when brought up to 100% full power and then left there for 2-3 years until the next refueling outage (or even longer if the reactor is a Gen IV fast reactor). On the other hand, coal (and hydro power where available) are ideally suited to fill in the demand during peak hours. So yes, what we need is an optimal mix of power generation sources, and with increased overall demand due to the massive new data and compute server centers that "big tech" wants, we need economical, reliable, and non-intermittent power sources, which wind and solar cannot possibly satisfy.
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    And I will now respond to the title of "The Most Holy Him Who Made An Ash Of Himself" the same way your respond to Dino MA.....
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    Excellent response!!! I am always good at making an Ash of myself, but I am otherwise engaged.....As a recommendation, I think that Waltz would be a good candidate to replace me.....He needs to be tossed into some place quite hot.....
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    There is a good reason why you missed that. All hail Gaia our Earth Mother.
    A willing sacrifice is required to save the planet. O Chosen One, a volunteer is needed to jump into an active volcano.
    You shalt be forever honored as The Most Holy Him Who Made An Ash Of Himself!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    After me dino done did my post and went away for a bit, it occurred that maybe I should have had Gaia the earth goddess tranny "identify" as a cloudy god.
    That way her already being a Greek deity, she could also "identify" with being Zeus, king of the Olympians and rapist of many prominent mythological virgins.
    As a lesbian menace renamed Gary Zeus, she/he/it could now punish the world with thunderbolts shortly after impregnating The View.
    Yeah, I generally watch half of Gutfeld~~who often picks on The View~~before turning off my TV for the night.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    I would argue only until McKinley was murdered and replaced by the first of the bad presidents of the 20th century - Teddy Roosevelt. They got worse.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    I am helping a chip maker build a new fab lab about 5 minutes from work. Two other small firms and this relatively small chip maker specialize in nanoelectromechanical (resonator) systems, or NEMS. They are capable of mass resolution at 10^(-20) g (i.e. an individual DNA strand or a single protein macromolecule).
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 weeks, 1 day ago
    Oh, no! For the sheer shame of it all! Bitterly weep for our shame!
    Gaia, our Earth Mother and Goddess Of Spiritual Science, shalt become displeased.
    She shalt become angry and punish us by destroying her planetary child with our own pollution.
    What will become of our Mommy then? Save for her fading away as a forgotten memory?
    How can we all be so mean? For shame!
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 weeks, 1 day ago in reply to this comment.
    Key point: The years 1866 - 1940
    Are 1,000% Unique in human history.
    We went from outhouses, almost no indoor plumbing, and undrinkable/unsafe water where EVERY parent lost at least one child (one is none was a common phrase, my grandma had 12).

    To a world where almost no children died. Antibiotics saved most lives, indoor plumbing, and indoor electricity, the automobile, and so much more.

    We have been fortunate to be born in such historic times, where the Huns did not come and wipe us out for our women and our food.

    So, to be clear. I think Rand went a step too far with her statements, because prior to this time, only the Feudal lords could have planned generationally, much less take advantage of a 99yr lease (2.5 generations?)

    Yet, computer chip makers seem to thrive in an environment where the rate of change of tech is simply mind blowing. And the investment scale is even higher. The first silicon wafer cost BILLIONS. Every one after that is PENNIES.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 2 weeks, 2 days ago in reply to this comment.
    The EO is a step in the right direction, but a stable government consistently in the direction of enterprise has not existed here or anywhere else in my lifetime. It did in America from 1866 to 1900 and nowhere else and in no other time.
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  • Posted by 2 weeks, 2 days ago in reply to this comment.
    My take is that the EO is a reversal of the idiotic government meddling actions against hydrocarbon energy for purposely faked climate change "science."
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  • Posted by 2 weeks, 2 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Excellent point.
    This EO should never have been needed if the fedgov had obeyed the US Constitution and stopped meddling in the free market
    (to increase the power and wealth of parasites in D.C. and their corrupt traitors elsewhere.)
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 2 weeks, 2 days ago
    As much as I like being able to use any resource to generate power, this executive order illustrates how difficult it is for chemical engineers like me.

    From Atlas Shrugged: "But you expect industrial giants — who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations, and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts — to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort."

    Executive orders do not allow people like me to plan in terms of decades.
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