Will coal miners be moving to China ….

by SamCogar Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:38 am

….. to find themselves a “new” job at manufacturing Solar Panels and Wind Turbines for the US market?

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Source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/03/ontario-canada-a-mirror-of-americas-economic-future-mortgaged-to-falsified-climate-science/

Replacing nuclear and fossil fuel energies with alternate energies drives up the costs and creates a multitude of other problems. A US Senate report notes,

“Comparisons of wind, solar, nuclear, natural gas and coal sources of power coming on line by 2015 show that solar power will be 173% more expensive per unit of energy delivered than traditional coal power, 140% more than nuclear power and natural gas and 92% more expensive than wind power. Wind power is 42% more expensive than nuclear and natural gas power.”

“Wind and solar’s “capacity factor” or availability to supply power is around 33%, which means 67% of the time wind and solar cannot supply power and must be supplemented by a traditional energy source such as nuclear, natural gas or coal.”

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Subcommittees.Subcommittee&Subcommittee_id=61c82caf-9dca-46c0-93b3-c7f602cc2e48

Coal and NG “fired” power generating plants have to function at “100% capacity factor” at all times ...... to provide “on-demand” power during the 67% of the time that wind and solar cannot supply power.