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		thelastgallon 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New England's last coal plant has stopped operatin... Thats the wrong question. The question to ask is what is the death rates per unit of electricity production: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... Coal beats everything else by a mile. We also get mercury pollution for free, so no more eating fish.

ericd 56 days ago [–]

I'm not a coal proponent, just trying to understand the veracity of an argument that I think R's make sometimes (that coal isn't economically viable primarily because state regs make it too expensive).

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