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Coal has killed more than WW2 since 1970
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<blockquote data-quote="eclipsenow" data-source="post: 68530386" data-attributes="member: 274355"><p>Wow. Coal <strong>co<em>st</em>s</strong> America a lot.</p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">A lot! </span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal (US) Paul R. Epstein, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009 The external costs of coal are calculated to add 18 cents per kilowatt hour to the price of electricity in the USA. This means the true cost may be as high as 27 cents per kilowatt hour. ”We estimate that the life cycle effects of coal and the waste stream generated are costing the U.S. public a third to over one-half of a trillion dollars annually. Many of these so-called externalities are, moreover, cumulative. <strong>Accounting for the damages conservatively doubles to triples the price of electricity from coal per kWh generated, making wind, solar, [3] and other forms of non-fossil fuel power generation, along with investments in efficiency and electricity conservation methods, economically competitive.” </strong>onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749- 6632.2010.05890.x/full</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eclipsenow, post: 68530386, member: 274355"] Wow. Coal [B]co[I]st[/I]s[/B] America a lot. [SIZE=5]A lot! [/SIZE] [INDENT]Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal (US) Paul R. Epstein, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009 The external costs of coal are calculated to add 18 cents per kilowatt hour to the price of electricity in the USA. This means the true cost may be as high as 27 cents per kilowatt hour. ”We estimate that the life cycle effects of coal and the waste stream generated are costing the U.S. public a third to over one-half of a trillion dollars annually. Many of these so-called externalities are, moreover, cumulative. [B]Accounting for the damages conservatively doubles to triples the price of electricity from coal per kWh generated, making wind, solar, [3] and other forms of non-fossil fuel power generation, along with investments in efficiency and electricity conservation methods, economically competitive.” [/B]onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749- 6632.2010.05890.x/full[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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