White House will dump $700M of public funds into costly, unreliable coal again

866-RON-0-FEZ

Here's a non-smug, non-flamebait source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/climate/trump-coal-plants...

Havoc

Another whopper of an idea from the trump administration Next up - lead back in petrol to lower IQs

HDBaseT

I don't see exactly how coal is "unreliable". I've had more power outages with the switching to green energy production than I ever had whilst coal was king. The 'coal is unreliable' narrative comes from the fact our power stations are 50 years old. Not that the resource or the method to extract energy out of it is unreliable.

morninglight

The Stanley Steamer runs very reliably on coal, wood or even paper ballots!

atmavatar

Maybe if we start pushing coal again, we'll get some new Silent Hill games. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire See: https://www.historyandheadlines.com/may-27-1962-the-real-sil...