BENHAM, Ky. (WYMT) - An unlikely building is switching to solar powered energy.
The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham is owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. Communications Director Brandon Robinson told WYMT, they're hoping to save money by the switch.
Kentucky Coal Mining Museum converts to solar power
It's the community College that made that decision and more then likely there was some other
government money used. Tax payers are footing the big bill for this.
Coal miners had nothing to do with this choice.
Why does everyone look at this as if coal and solar were enemies of one to the other? At some point it will be great if solar energy becomes truly efficient and affordable. Until then...the world still needs coal,a nd will for the foreseeable future.
It will be very telling to see if this building when completed will run solely on solar power or if will still require coal energy. One can only assume that a facility of that size will have considerable energy needs with AC and other major appliance to feed.
Swell. And when coal is no longer need at all, I'm sure the industry will die a death of natural causes and not one of strangulation by government mandate.Coal is on the decline no matter how you look at it, natural gas has already largely replaced coal for most uses where it has not been replaced by renewable sources.
Swell. And when coal is no longer need at all, I'm sure the industry will die a death of natural causes and not one of strangulation by government mandate.
Swell. And when coal is no longer need at all, I'm sure the industry will die a death of natural causes and not one of strangulation by government mandate.
It is better to kill it now before it is too late to rescue those affected. There is no point to keep it alive.
The previous administration vowed to tax it into oblivion. The problem is that the green energy projects that they invested so many billions of dollars in...all failed miserably.Very insightful. The left claims that coal is dying but the left feels the need to make it die because they don't trust it to die on it's own.
Footing the bill for lower utility costs is a bad thing?
It is better to kill it now before it is too late to rescue those affected. There is no point to keep it alive.
Do you have a plan to replace all those jobs?
Provide funding for education and relocation. Teach them to do something else and allow them to escape coal country. They are already dying, it is best to do something now.
Very insightful. The left claims that coal is dying but the left feels the need to make it die because they don't trust it to die on it's own.
A government program is the answer?
Footing the bill for lower utility costs is a bad thing?
Sorry the issue is do we wait until market forces act to force the coal plants to shut down knowing that waiting to take that slow route mean that public health and the very lives of those downwind of the coal plants are at unneeded risk for that period of time?
Coal miners seeing the light?
How many jobs will that cost, especially if the trend to cheaper and renewal energy continues?
Sorry the issue is do we wait until market forces act to force the coal plants to shut down knowing that waiting to take that slow route mean that public health and the very lives of those downwind of the coal plants are at unneeded risk for that period of time?
Coal is on the decline no matter how you look at it, natural gas has already largely replaced coal for most uses where it has not been replaced by renewable sources.
Do you happen to have a feel for the current poverty levels in the Appalachian states? Do you see a ton of investment in relocating people?Provide funding for education and relocation. Teach them to do something else and allow them to escape coal country. They are already dying, it is best to do something now.
Do you happen to have a feel for the current poverty levels in the Appalachian states? Do you see a ton of investment in relocating people?
Out of Appalachia, yes. There is there is no future for anyone.
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