in 72bluNblu's write up, the remark about coal kind of jumped out at me. We are the Saudia Arabia of the coal industry. When a country struggles with supply, they find a different method to get the same results. We don't struggle with supply. Coal is energy. Coal is heat. Coal is economy. We have it, like the Saudi's have oil. Coal works.
- Solar panels in the 80's were the talk of the time, but new homes are built WAY more often with natural gas than solar panels and we are in 2017.
- Corn was supposed to replace gasoline. E85 was a flop.
- Latest discovery makes it "new". What if coal had just been discovered??
- And will water replace electric cars, and everyone burns hydrogen?? Water is everywhere, and will never go away. Just goes back up as vapor only to return by rain. In fact, the planet is mostly water...? This will be awesome when the sun burns out... :D
Not against moving forward, not against electric cars (though my opinion is they are not as fun), but we'll all see where it goes. :)
