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Originally Posted by Chicks
So after all that, you've agreed that the Green New Deal has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with Coal's decimation, despite saying it did in the first place. You're not very good at this...
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This is what
coal attrition looks like:
Note the scale on the bottom.
This is what decimation of nuclear in Japan looks like because of the Fukashima disaster:
Again, note the scale on the bottom.
10+ years of attrition versus <1 year of decimation. Huge difference.
If the Green New Deal became law, American coal, nuclear, and natural gas would look like Japan's nuclear. That's over 80% of the electric generation capacity mothballed:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/...-in-the-us.php
Blackouts would be inevitable.
You can't change decades of investments in a decade. Power plants especially have a 20+ year service life.