PART ONE OF TWO PARTS

By Anton Lang ~

For the seven years I have been contributing at this site, I have concentrated on explaining why renewable power just cannot replace coal fired power as a source of constant, regular, and reliable electricity.

So then, would a plan to remove almost a third of all coal fired power generation with nothing to replace it with sound like a rational option to take? While only around a third of coal fired power, this amounts to almost 10.5% of the total U.S. electrical power generation. At a time when U.S. power consumption is increasing, a plan to do this seems like a pretty extreme thing to do.

Recently, President Obama flagged that he will present his Emissions Reduction pledge to the upcoming UNFCCC Climate Change Conference in Paris. The UNFCCC is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and this…