Debating coal's future

[MuleKist]

Of course, a builder wants to keep on building, otherwise, what is he ?

[MuleKist]

Grow and burn HEMP!

[radimatt]

Elisa has a powerful story. This really brings our choices to the forefront - will we choose to live in a way that is economically and ecologically sustainable? Will politicians be leaders, or followers?

[Pandonodrim]

What's more, Greg Sheets seems to be one of the most ignorant hicks I've ever seen, not to mention offensive. Calling Sierra Club, etc. terrorists? He should be arrested.

As for James Acree: please, PLEASE James, let me see you eat some coal. I will film it. I'll even buy the coal. I can get some Texas lignite for you cheap. Please let me feed it to you. And film it. I'd love that! Who takes these people seriously? How sad...

[Pandonodrim]

Nuclear is not a solution to coal. Nuclear power runs on coal. Both are devastating to public health and the environment, and both have viable alternatives: energy efficiency, solar thermal, concentrating solar, solar pv, wind, geothermal, tidal and wave power, energy storage, the list goes on...

As for "they can move." These people can't move. Having these terrible industrial facilities ruins their property value - they can't sell. Furthermore - why should they move? This is their home.

[Kermit4Prezident]

You know, there's a thing called "moving".

[dirtyoldman54]

WTF???

[dirtyoldman54]

And we complain about second hand smoke from cigs.But this is ok???

[yvonne104]

these ppl can move so there

[zx7bike]

These people are retards,so what's stopping you from getting off the power grid.None of the complainers are practicing what they're preaching.Funny how you never hear from people who are off the grid?

[ElisaYoung33]

For what it's worth, my family went on geothermal and solar 30 years ago when the Carter administration made renewable energy a priority - promptly reversed during the Reagan nuclear era. Most people can't afford renewables because the vast majority of the subsidies are being put on finite fossil fuels, researching dead-end jobs to keep it on life support instead of making real solutions a tangible option. After you've watched your neighbors die, come back and we'll talk about it. ~ Elisa

[cyphersmith1]

While very good options, they aren't economically viable yet. Nuclear, however, is much better than coal as an option.

[Pandonodrim]

Every single option OTHER than Nuclear and Coal are more economically viable options. The only reason Nuclear and Coal are considered viable are because the nuke and coal companies are not held accountable for all their externalized costs. When you take them into consideration they are FAR more expensive than any alternative.

Even without taking externalizes into account, nuclear is still more expensive. Nukes are not an answer to coal. They weren't 30 years ago and they still aren't today.

[lefthooklyrics]

get a news crew and go to these cry babies houses in the middle of the winter or summer.and tell them you are there to remove the electric meter from they're house. you will really see them cry then.

[madmoddersparkler]

"it wouldn'y hurt you a bit to put a pieace on a plate...." well save for the mercury lead and other heavy metals.

[bobzerok]

This video actually is not about coal's future, it's about the people's future versus power consumption needs.

When one speaks about people he is in fact speaking about politics. As a human science it should be pro man in a very wide picture, so people must always come first in political thoughts. Since coal threats so much the way people live, then coal is not an alternative. Simple as that.

It would be wise to combine power source plants to avoid dependency and to keep ourselves competitive.

[sweetelesue]

It's funny how everybody just assumes we have to have electricity to live long healthy happy lives.

[sweetelesue]

He that chooses wealth over health deserves neither.

[rambydave]

I think it's a good idea about the nuclear plant in Piketon. Clear energy and jobs for this area. It's safe as can be too. They just dump the old fuel rods at a disposal facility like Yucca mt. I personally think we should send radioactive waste to the moon.

[patio87]

Or send it towards the sun.

[tomrunsalot]

Replacing coal is the single most effective way to reduce global warming. It needs to be outlawed. The real rice of using coal is astronomical, many times more than sale price. Natural gas, nuclear sun and wind all can contribute today. Coal miners need to find another job, sorry.

[TAMARLANE]

Energy.. Not a technological problem. Just a political problem. I worked in the nuclear energy field for over 50 years. Far and away the cleanest safest way to generate electricity. Anyone who rejects nuclear energy for electrical power generation is either ignorant or subversive.

[moreSmartLessStupid]

I like how they didn't mention nuclear power, hydroelectric, or geothermal. Trying to justify coal plants is just moronic. I would love to put James and Greg out of work after hearing them speak.

[smpeach]

For the record, Mr. Sheets and Pastor Acree did talk about other forms of energy, including the ones you mention, in my interviews with them. It just didn't make it to the final cut. Thanks for watching!

[audioflog]

i have a brilliant idea sponsored by the government.

lets substitue corn for coal, that way we take food out of peoples mouths, and as soon as the corn goes short, the prices skyrocket.

genius

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

Coal has a very dark dusty future ahead of it, but that's always been the case.

[RonFella]

Here's an idea: MOVE AWAY!

[fieyr2002]

Even if they did, wouldn't that just mean there would be no one around to fight against the building of new coal burning plants?

What about people who can't afford to move? It isn't exactly cheap to move you know,