Trump saves 13 coal fired electric plants

China and India are still using Coal Fired Electric plants (even building more)

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Corporate welfare...I'm not opposed to it but that's all this is.

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they were pushed to close by political reasons.....Environmental religion

Yep

We’ll find out in a year from now that he magically bought stock in a few of these places a week before signing this thing

It was cheaper to built a combined cycle natural gas fired plant with low natural gas prices in the US for the last 15+ years. The vast majority closed under Obama were at end of life anyway, which is around 50 years

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The vast majority closed under Obama were at end of life anyway, which is around 50 years

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So he wanted to close down coal fired plants, he was just unable to do so?

I reached out to one of my buddies. He’s in the coal business in Kentucky. I’ll report back if this is a big deal.

But it's going to cause us to have pollution like India

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And their air sucks…

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They don't use scrubber technologies for obvious reasons. We have and use that technology in the US so our air will continue to be just fine.

I worked in that industry for a long time. I’ve worked on fossil fuel power plants, Nukes, and basically all types of boiler units that produce power.

Eventually the components will wear out of course due to the enormous amount of heat and especially pressure that’s exerted.

Penthouse Headers lifespans run from 30/50yrs depending on how hard you run the unit, but they are designed to be replaced and I’ve help replace quite a few. It’s no big deal, usually about 10/12wks outage.

Everything on a fossil fuel boiler unit is designed to be replaced. Water walls, super heats, pendant tubes, economizer tubes, reheat tubes, the list goes on and on is all designed to be repaired.