What’s funny is that coal power puts 100x more radiation into the environment than nuclear power.
Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.
It’s not even really an eventually, it’s about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.
It is also the most serious contributor to acid rain.
https://www.gem.wiki/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal
The EPA estimates that more than 65%, or over 13 million tons per year, of SO2 production in the U.S. comes from electric utilities, 93 percent of which is produced by coal power plants.
There was a related article, that I found as one of the most hopeful and positives for the environment……
I don’t remember how long they said mercury remains in the food chain but what I got out of it was that global coal is peaking and likely to decline rapidly and mercury settles out of the food chain in decades so my children may eventually be able to eat tuna and other seafood without worrying about mercury!
specifically tuna, its the bioaccumulation on the food web, the TUNA eats other animals that have mercury in it, that eats smaller animals that filter mercury, it piles up.
That’s the trophic structure part. The other part is mercury pollution from mining and fossil fuels.
That is funny!
thats likely the least of the problems coal can do, global warming, pullution
Right, but this is a clear gatcha since all people want to talk about when it comes to nuclear is “toxic green sludge” and storage, as if the rocks didn’t already come from inside a mountain…
There’s been talk about re-opening the mines in Wales too and I’m sat here like why?? We already export more power, water and other resources than we get back and building nuclear plants on those sites would likely do more to lower costs of power
There’s a recent video from Hank Green outlining the very compelling argument for abandoning coal power in strictly economic terms. It turns out that even if you ignore the big picture environmental impacts like global warming and acid rain, and you also ignore the localized impacts like air pollution and chemical waste, and you ignore the other negative externalities like long term health effects on the workers, then coal is still hard to justify because natural gas plants are simply more profitable.
Not to say that we should be ignoring any of those things, but just to make a point about how impossible it is to make a good faith argument for coal in today’s world.
It’s just a bad fuel in every way. This administration is trying to coerce us to use it
the only reason the gop needs it because is, they need WV and parts pennsylvania voting R
You’re the worst character ever, Coalie.
More “wanna get brain damage from coal pollutants?”
Or, “How about some Black Lung”
One high please
Hey guess what has more mercury in it than vaccines? Why isn’t anyone asking that RFK JR moron about mercury in coal.
As someone who grew up in a mining town I cannot wrap my head around how anyone would want it back. (Money, ofc.)
We grew up playing in dead, bright orange sulfur creeks that are just now beginning to heal 40 years later.
We watched our community die from black lung.
The streets and homes were filthy with black dust.
Fuck coal.
This little guy looks like he’d be introduced to me by Troy McClure.
I thought it was a South Park bit.
Yeah, except coalie looks like he’s about to cry
He just came back from the doctor with a list of health issues, and he only has 3 months left to live.
Surely his insurance and the best hospitals will help
Can you imagine a world without coal, Jimmy?
Remember when they made Joe Camel illegal because it was appealing to kids, good times
Joe Camel was just fucking weird. And what the fuck was Grimace?
There are a few theories on Grimace. He is either physical manifestation of a milkshake headache or an anthropomorphic taste bud.
South park needs to make a episode about this
PLEASE
I can see it now, Coalie enters the scene:
“Howdy-coughcoughcough - oh! My back, Kyle”
They need to make coaly voiced by a person who has smoked thousands of cigarettes.
“Yeah coals real safe and healty for us all cough cough cough cough”
Thousands of cigarettes doesn’t seem that many. I’ve been a smoker for 10 years and I easily smoked thousands. They need a pack a day smoker for like 25 years plus.
Make him breath/smoke through a hole in his neck.
They wouldn’t though, SP’s creators genuinely think there’s nothing wrong with the tobacco industry. A lot of episodes that seemed like they were satire were just their actual beliefs, presented in a silly way.
John Oliver will probably abuse it in some way. Sadly he doesn’t start until the 15th and something new and horrible will have replaced this.
Kimmel had a pretty good roast of it but it’s already such a sad satire of itself it was barely necessary
Big issue with the state of politics, comedians are basically relegated to just reading the news because it’s already a satire.
And that’s on a good day, when they aren’t trying to figure out how to even be humorous around the horrific things they need to talk about.
Yeah, can’t really joke about executions in the street.
Of course you can, you just have to be careful with the execution
Now, people are gonna say this is meant to brain-wash children.
But you see, the lead-brained troglodyte, drooling demented dumb fuck boomer generation that has gleefully and passionately supported Trump through racism and child rape, are cognitively declining at record setting rates.
This is for them, to be pur on their TVs they don’t know how to use so they can stare at it all slack jawed and stupid while they murmur under their breath and slowly clap their hands together before they have the good graces to finally liberate this planet from their presence already.
Ever see one of the arguments on Facebook about removing lead in aviation fuel?
Half of the comments unintentionally demonstrate why removing lead is a good idea. It’s really amusing, or would be if it wasn’t so sad. “The lead is distributed over a wide area! It’s not a problem!”
And aviation fuel is not even taxed usually :/ we are so dumb. Meanwhile so many dismantled train and tram tracks all over
“the ocean is so big, it can easily accommodate the itty bitty nuclear waste from these minuscule Fukushima meltdowns!” /s
edited to indicate sarcasm
I assume there’s a cartoon where they burn him?
Weighted companion coal
Yeah, just google “Coalie rule 34”
The utterly ludicrous and comical contradiction of having an unsustainable mascot never even crossed their mind.
If course it’s also low effort ai slop
Jesus… and I thought Towelie was lame.
At least Towlie reminds us to bring a towel. That’s actually useful information with no downsides.
Douglas Adams taught me that in a much less annoying way.
Douglas Adams also taught me you can never have too many showers in a single day.
and he always has good weed.
They’re just fucking with us now.
Always has been. Never a day without it.
“Miners with black lung disease, meanwhile, have had to the Trump administration’s move to roll back safety protections for the coal industry…”
From OSMRE website:
Each year, OSMRE transfers more than $1 billion to the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds to support health care and pension benefits for eligible coal miners and their beneficiaries.
The US spends billions every year subsidizing coal and paying for the toll it takes on coal workers’ health. And yet, the MAGA folks I know seem to be more supportive of coal than they were 5 years ago. Like a lot more.
I don’t get how this plays in MAGA favor when the coal miners themselves are getting shafted and when coal energy represents a complete and total grift - exactly the same type of stuff that had these same folks so excited about Trump and Musk cutting government programs. Any argument for coal falls apart immediately because natural gas is better in almost every way.
Why are these “coalfare kings” getting away with it?
The libs don’t like coal → they have to own the libs → they like coal.
Exactly this.
Part of the problem is that propaganda has convinced them that solar and wind are just pipe dreams and scams which are too weak and expensive to be useful. That it’s just part of an agenda being pushed by the radical leftist hippy green weenies who want your taxes to subsidize their useless toys. That renewables are all about virtue signalling and aren’t practical because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, etc.
It’s not just the imbeciles either. I’ve known otherwise intelligent people who simply never bothered to investigate the claims they heard. I have these conversations with my dad on occasion because he knows I’m interested in EVs and solar and he’ll mention the bullshit articles he reads and I have to point out the flaws in those articles. The last time we talked he questioned if a solar roof really works in the northern parts of the country and he had trouble accepting it until I pointed out that all the plants outside are solar powered and they do just fine.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
Because using cheap, clean energy would be woke or something, and the sun cannot bribe government officials.
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