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ChairmanAgnostic

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5. when will any of the four presidential candidates start discussing this?

Reply to NWCorona (Original post)

Tue Oct 4, 2016, 01:10 PM

Oct 2016

Hillary could easily (and should) grab this issue and run.

Teh Donald is neither inclined to support alternate energy, not when he can knock her as anti-coal. (which any realist really should be today).

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Solar panels surpass coal-fired electricity in previously ‘unthinkable’ feat [View all] NWCorona Oct 2016 OP

K & R SunSeeker Oct 2016 #1

In the U.K. - coal is dead. Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #2

k&r saidsimplesimon Oct 2016 #3

But you're not the only one. DorothyG Oct 2016 #6

But that's not a fair contest! truebluegreen Oct 2016 #4

when will any of the four presidential candidates start discussing this? ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2016 #5

You do recall she had to walk back her comments to coal miners that their industry.... Hekate Oct 2016 #10

Yon microscope pointed at her is YUGE. ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2016 #12

So where is this country, when compared to others? turbinetree Oct 2016 #7

How much natural gas did they burn? NickB79 Oct 2016 #8

Here's a real-time readout of the UK national electricity grid Denzil_DC Oct 2016 #9

k&r nt bananas Oct 2016 #11