Look at something like the coal industry. It's old technology and bad for the environment, but we still pander to states with big coal industry because jobs.
Cleaner, renewable energy won't take off until these old Industries are finally dead. We shouldn't keep them artificially afloat.
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20 RepliesCoal isn't solely used at power plants. The cement plant I work at uses coal (from the coal mine they own) as well as natural gas and shredded tires, to heat our kiln. We could get rid of it completely, but the cost of our product would rise. Not to mention the trucks that bring the coal in. TBH, I don't think you have a firm grasp on the totalities of the coal industry and all the different industries that benefit from it. The industry is far from failing. But this makes me wonder, we produce around 3% pollution from our smoke stack. How much nuclear waste does a nuclear power plant produce? Fun facts: there is a power plant in Laughlin, NV that has its coal pumped to it, underground in a slurry, from a mine in North Central Arizona, hundreds of miles away. That same mine also produces coal for a power plant in page, az.