The “emegency” was not enough profits for the fossil fuels industry, rather than a need for the electricity an ancient coal-burning power plant might generate, and the Trump administration plan has been to prevent all coal-burning power plants from shutting down — even if they’re already broken, don’t work, aren’t needed, or are simply more expensive than wind, solar, and utility-scale batteries.



Not that I’m disagreeing with your point, but $65k multiplied by a hundred is $6.5 million, not $650k
Yeah that is true…
Do you have the values on which these back-of-the-napkin calculations were based? As a natural sciences teacher, I’d love to discuss it with my students as an example.
Wind Turbine:
https://sigmaearth.com/cost-analysis-how-much-do-commercial-wind-turbines-really-cost/
Part of the Coal - ie scrubber costs
https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/cost-of-coal-power-plants/
Thank you!!