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I see the Solartopians have learned from the Warmers how to adjust and be deceptive about their numbers to best sell their agenda. It was clever how they admitted that most of the solar jobs were installers and then listed a median income for the whole industry of about $26. Solar installers earn about ten dollars/hour about the same as burger flippers because it is a low skill job..
Mining, power plant work and oil/gas work are all high skill high pay occupations and pushing prosperous people into this low paying solar work will destroy their livelyhood and some of them also get to be gypsies so they won't need that foreclosed on home.
Solar is going to continue growing but Trump is making certain that the government doesn't force the growth at the expense of the reliable dense energy sources we now use or load the actual costs of forced conversion onto ratepayers or taxpayers.
Keep in mind that solarpanels produce useable power for about 7 hours a day so a fossil fuel power source is needed to cover the other 17 hours at least.
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 8:52pm
Automation is killing the jobs
https://thinkprogress.org/drilling-experts-explain-why-trump-cant-bring-...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 9:50pm
There are what, 20,000 total coal jobs east of the Mississippi, and no useful coal veins left? It's over. A drag if solar installation is only $10, thus afar need for higher minimum wage, but alternative is unemployment or a new strategy - nothing's reviving coal.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 12:47am
Well at least your arguments have turned realistic that this industry is over.
Convince me, how exactly is Trump doing the following?
Trump is making certain that the government doesn't force the growth at the expense of the reliable dense energy sources we now use or load the actual costs of forced conversion onto ratepayers or taxpayers.
P.S. You realize that in the country in general, unemployment figures are getting quite low? I read the other day about how in Utah, where it's 3.1%, that that figure is starting to cause the "logjam" of employers not wanting to pay higher wages to break. If you're as truly for the government not interfering in these things like your comment suggests, this is how it works, that's all you got: people suffer as the world changes and the market finally adjusts. And people have to be either smart enough to move to where the jobs are or train for a new high skill high pay occupations as you put it, You yourself are admitting here that workers have to learn skills to earn good pay.When simple change (call it progress if you like, or not) happens, I would presume you don't think the government should subsidize old skills that are no longer needed?
If, on the other hand, if you are for the government supporting skills that are out of favor, I'd like to see some help for art appraisers of 19th century art now that the market has decided that contemporary art is what it wants.....
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 8:12am
P.S. I'm serious on the "convince me" part. I'm seeing lots of ads allover the place suggesting homeowners consider putting solar panels on their roof.There is the suggestion that there is some government subsidy involved. Did Trump stop something along these lines?
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 8:19am
Most of our wars and defense spending the last 40 years has been a subsidy for cheap gas out of the Mideast, especially after the Soviet Onion peeled apart. But spend a few bills on something that we won't die for, and people get suspicious and persnickety - not the American Way, we need body count or it didn't happen.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:06am
Adding a related personal history story. From recently learned genealogical research (used to presume they were all peasant farmers, found different.)
Great grandpa and his brother had a thriving horse and buggy supplies business in the center of Manistee, Michigan in the late 19th century and early years of the 20th after immigrating from the old country. Manistee then was a very prosperous growing town with a lot of wealth in it from the lumber industry. As Henry Ford's machine started to become popular, and as the lumber business in Manistee contracted at the same time (for reasons I do not know,) grandpa's business went belly up and everyone in the family moved across Lake Michigan to the bigger town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Great grandpa opened a small dry goods store there, but the already grown kids chose not to work in it, or he chose not to employ them, whatever, I don't know, I wasn't there.
Grandpa took a job as a machinist in a big manufacturing corporation. When he got sick of being stuck in a dank factory, he quit and took a job driving a delivery truck so he could be out and about. (Dad was the first to go to college and white collar job, on the GI Bill. Many other relatives went into being truckers.)
Manistee is still there, a shrunken charming old town with few jobs. There is a big cemetery plot there with a tall obelisk on it with my family's name, as if they were going to be there forever. Only one person is buried there, the rest of the plots are empty. I was born in Milwaukee but live in NYC. Siblings live in CA and FL.
Why do all the coal mining people stay in coal mining country as if the jobs there will be passed down through eternity? Why do they expect the same as in a centrally planned (i.e., communist) country?
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 9:14am
This has been a telling display of Clintonites disregard for working class Americans especially the coal miners of Appalichia however small their numbers. These people have kept the fires of our civilization stoked through war, depression and disaster. The Red Queen and her followers publicly called for destroying their livelyhoods and dispersing them into the new green agenda where they would become dependent on the state for survival.
It's no wonder they reacted positively to Trump's message because he responded to their needs as a friend. Trump may not be able to grow the coal industry or increase the jobs but he has already stopped the direct government mandated attacks on these working people, by scrapping the CPP.
The towns in Michigan that depended on logging ceased to prosper and expand whan all the trees were cut. The state was stripped of its primeval forest to build the houses of the eastern US. My grandfather sold trainloads of supplies to the logging camps in the late 1800's then returned to Alabama with a Wisconsin bride when the bonanza ended. My family returned to Michigan in 1950 to seek opportunity but some people want to remain where they are with all their family history and friends.
by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:12am
As PP noted, the loss of jobs in coal is due to market forces
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/10/debate-and-energy-donald-trump-ignores-wh...
Any change that Trump makes to the CPP will be challenged in court.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/trump-is-killing-obamas-clean-power-plan-...
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:25am
Same thing as lumber in Michigan:
Appalachia comes up small in era of giant coal mines analysis via graphs, maps and photos @ WaPo, May 5
As the coal industry is squeezed, the most productive mines employ huge machines and relatively few people.
If Appalachians want to continue to work in coal, they need new skill sets and to move to Wyoming.
Edit to add: my great grandpa probably could have stayed in Manistee if he had taken up auto mechanics. But he was also looking at the contraction of the population there, and chose to leave.
Assimilation to reality, that's the thing.
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:47am
Wind Project in Wyoming Envisions Coal Miners as Trainees @ NYT Business, May 21
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:47pm
Just for you, Peter (not verified):
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 11:12am
Assume you've read The Road to Wellville then. Yes, the equation is as ancient as the prodigal son and Exodus... Those who have to move move, those who can't see nuttin to gain stay put.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:48am
and those who believe in an alternate reality screw up the world.
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:56am
everyone screws up the world. some use alternate means, some use direct means.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 1:50pm
TPM/TerraJoule.us: Manifest Destiny - Modern Day...
This is a partial copy written by a highly respected oil analyst and energy sector investor, who also focuses on the coming transition to alternatives.
Part Two of a five-part series: Behind the pay-wall at TPM
Part One: The New Kids In Town
Part Two: Remaking the Map of U.S. Energy Production
Part Three: Case Study: Los Angeles
Part Four: Making Gains, But A Need For a Grid Storage Solution
Part Five: Winners and Losers
The Renewables: Remaking the Map of U.S. Energy Production
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 05/23/2017 - 3:26am
Beautiful, thank you. Took the liberty of changing the title to also give more credit to TPM & TerraJoule.us (you give it elsewhere, but since it's an expensive pub....). 2 years old at this point, but still very relevant in terms of trends & regional juggling for position.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/23/2017 - 4:23am
Peracles... No matter what Trump sold his coal base . . .
April 25, 2017 | Bloomberg
Biggest U.S. Companies Setting More Renewable-Energy Targets
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 05/24/2017 - 4:46am
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 05/24/2017 - 4:57am