After Record 2012, World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts (300GW) in 2013

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7. Do you think these charts are wrong:

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/13/wind-solar-natural-gas-up-in-europe-coal-nuclear-down/

Coal power consumption in the US will this year reach its lowest level since 1996, according to new EIA estimates. But, somehow, despite coal’s share of energy generation in the US falling from 44% in 2010 to 42% in 2011 to a predicted 40% in 2012, the EIA’s annual energy outlook released in March predicts that coal will only fall to 39% by 2035. Why would coal not keep declining (more than 0.043% a year)? Natural gas and several sources of renewable energy are already cheaper and more flexible. The idea (or US EIA projection) that coal would only drop another percentage point in the next 23 years is absurd.

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/02/natural-gas-vs-renewable-energy-growth/

You may think this progress is too slow, but you should consider how one patron saint of nuclear power--Ronald Reagan--affected that trend.

Can you absorb *any* of the above?

Now I must ask: Since when has added nuclear capacity caused fossil fuel generation to subside? I am thinking about the USA in particular, because that is the business culture which drives consumer consumption the most. But any examples you supply might be instructive...