There Is Not Enough Load Growth to Compensate Coal-Fired Generator Retirements And It Is Undermining Our Energy Security
Liberal policies have strangled the coal industry, and now that the "green energy" options are proving to be anything but green, they have also proven to be more expensive over their life cycle than the traditional forms of energy.
Gee, who would have th'unk?
Read on…
via Energy Security and Freedom, Thomas J. Shepstone (excerpt)
AI and data centers have captured the public’s attention over the last couple of years, and every big tech company is now in the game.
There will be failures and retrenchment, of course, as there always are with any new boom.
But there is no doubt that neither AI nor data centers are going away.
The economy is increasingly built on them.
There’s a lot to worry about with AI, for sure.
No one should underestimate the potential problems, but it’s happening, and it will demand huge amounts of energy that cannot be supplied by solar or wind.
Natural gas and nuclear are obvious answers, but it is also clear they aren’t enough by themselves, and some other reliable source of energy is needed, although the politically correct are rue to admit it.
That energy resource is coal, and I was not surprised to see this headline at the top of the heap at Real Clear Energy today:
For AI, We Need More Coal - Clemente & Palmer, Coal Zoom
Coal Zoom, as one might expect, is a pro-coal site, but the authors are legitimate experts on the subject, and I found their post (the first of a two-part article) compelling…