Economic prosperity demands continuous and uninterruptible electricity

The Demand for electricity is increasing because of increased usage by AI, datacenters, charging of EV's. and the natural organic growth of electricity as people of the world are lifted from poverty.

Today, "Net Zero" policymakers setting "green" policies are oblivious to the reality that so-called "renewables", ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any products or transportation fuels for our materialistic societies. In addition, everything that NEEDS Electricity, like iPhones and computers, are made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, coal, or natural gas.

• Electricity came AFTER oil, as ALL electrical generation methods from hydro, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar are ALL built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil,
• All EV's, solar panels, and wind turbines are also built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.

The Obama and Biden EPA was on a mission to kill coal power plants that provide continuous uninterruptable electricity to the grid regardless of the harm to our economy, it is a rogue government agency, staffed by extremists, aligned with rogue NGO's, guided by extremists first in the Obama Administration, then the Biden Administration that are using the regulations as a weapon against the best interests of America and the citizens. The key people at the EPA during the Obama and Biden Administrations were some of the same people who worked at various NGO's such as the NRDC. They were aligned with forcing the decline of America and the rise of China.

It is extreme fantasy to believe that the intermittent electricity from weather dependent wind and solar can power the economies of Developed Countries.

The elites of society have bought EV's and will continue to buy EV's, but the surge in EV Demand has not really been felt yet because EV's are still a small percentage of the total U.S. vehicle fleet for the elites that can afford them. However, with about 80% of the global population of 8 billion people living in less developed countries. Much of Africa and South-East Asia are prime examples of this, but also Pacific Ocean Island states.

The people in poorer developing countries might live on less than $10 per daybut the greater problem is that they have little or no access to reliable electricity, nor to the myriad of products manufactured using fossil fuels and their derivatives. The "green" agendas of the developed world are threatening to never allow them access to it.

Yet, the few wealthy developed countries continue to pursue the poor capacity factor, high cost and unreliability of wind and solar after decades of spending billions.

The answer to support the Primary Energy needed for electricity generation over the next twenty-five years is to build more dispatchable electricity generation capacity from new natural gas, nuclear and coal plants. We need to build lots of new gas, nuclear and coal plants. Easy to write about, harder to accomplish.

Building just one new 1,600 MW Coal Plant

One of the most recent coal plants built is the 1,600 MW Prairie States Energy Center in southern Illinois. The plant construction is well documented by Bechtel and Prairie States. Here are some statistics to explain the immensity of the challenge of building a plant such as the Prairie States Energy Campus.

• 42,000 tons of steel
• 165,000 cubic yards of concrete
• 2,700 construction workers
• 120 miles of piping
• 1,200 miles of electric cable