Message to Joe Biden: You will be shut down on 8 November 2022.

I don't get it. They can make coal in a lab in a few months. It's a renewable resource and they can sequester any pollution it makes. Why is everyone against coal.

Exactly!

The same reason why the US is shuttering plants that run solely on coal is the same reason we don’t artificially make coal in a lab.

It’s too expensive.

The amount of energy it would take to produce artificially coal to run a power plant would be redundant. That energy source would be better used to make the actual electricity than make coal.

It’s like saying if we had enough freshwater we could make seawater into a drinkable substance. When freshwater is already drinkable.

As for why we’re shut down coal plants, is because we already have at least three alternative resources that are all renewable and capable of producing electricity. Namely water, sun, and air.

Most cities run on hydroelectriual plants already. The only reason why wind farms are more commonly being pushed rather than hydroelectrical is because most only use freshwater. And because freshwater is such an important commodity for keeping us all from going thirsty, and not the sexy kind, wind power doesn’t use up oxygen for us to breath.

True, the amount of energy from solar and wind conversion is nowhere near the amount from coal. At least, not right now, not until more wind and solar farms are constructed.

And the cost of coal rises every day, making solar and wind farms more and more affordable.

Eventually the shoe will drop on coal. Waiting for that shoe to drop leaves us vulnerable.

Actually to make coal all you need is heat and pressure. It's affordable if you do it in large enough batches.

Wind and solar are not reliable and batteries to sequester power are way more expensive than coal.

Hydroelectric, hydrothermal, tidal, and nuclear are the only real alternative.

No, it’s not affordable in large batches. Again, the amount of energy required to generate the heat and pressure, would render the need to create coal as an energy source redundant. Especially in large batches.

Wind and Solar are reliable, but you’re correct that the problem lies in their batteries. Specifically for individual use, they’re not practical. In terms of public use, they’re far more useful. The batteries are no more expensive than coal but the process to extract the resources necessary is no different and equally, if not more, dangerous.

If you view alternatives in absolutes, then you’re not understanding the point of looking for alternatives. Which is exactly how big energy wants you to think.

Actually its much cheaper to heat something in say a desert with solar heat, than it is in NY. Pressure can be maintained without power in the proper built chambers. Look into it. Coal is cheaper all around as soon as it reaches mass production. Also while we are perfecting the technology, we have hundreds of years worth of coal in the ground.

Wind and Solar are not reliable. They both depend on perfect weather and require you to store energy from good days for bad days. The batteries cost more than you get out of it.

About the only cost effective thing is tidal and hydroelectric and nuclear. Anything else is a loser right now.

I have looked into it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/synthetic-fuel-production

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/lets-chemically-rebuild-fossil-fuels-to-create-sustainable-energy-63642

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2012/11/27/synthetic-fuels-could-eliminate-entire-us-need-crude-oil-create-new-economy

Almost no article concerning synthetic fuels are interested in synthetic coal because it is not viable. Apparently, we’re much more interested in liquid forms of fuel, including the conversion of coal to cheap liquid fuel.

I’m not ruling out all synfuel but the notion that we must pursue or consider synthetic coal is just not viable or realistic on any kind of term.

One ton of coal can produce 2,500 kilowatt hours of energy. It would require significantly more than 2,500 kilowatts of energy to artificially produce the pressure and heat needed to generate coal.

Saying it would be cheaper to produce synthetic coal in the desert is about as ludicrous as saying it would be cheaper to produce synthetic snow in space. The conditions are not the problem but the energy required is.

Further, we do not have hundreds of years worth of coal. We have less than two hundred years at our current conception. Coal can last longer if we reduce our overall reliant on it, but then you’d be supporting reduction in carbon emotions, not against it.

https://infinity-renewables.com/162-2/

Again, the problem with solar and wind batteries are not the cost but the same environmental impact of mining coal. Though instead of coal, we’re mining lithium. Arguably, lithium can be reusable, recyclable but we’re the options to do so are now severely limited with our current economic viable. That is why solar and wind batteries are not cost effective. That is fixable.

https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/are-lithium-ion-the-best-solar-batteries-for-energy-storage

https://ensia.com/features/battery-innovations-renewable-energy/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.euronews.com/green/amp/2022/07/21/the-race-for-renewable-batteries-whats-the-future-of-solar-and-wind-storage