USE – coal black market

Unintended secondary effects.

Obama desires to tax coal out of existence. Google [Obama coal "out of business"]

Coal is the base of all electric energy used in the world. What happens when the price doubles overnight?

Nevermind that millions of jobs  wiped out, and new “Enrons” trading funny paper called carbon credits. That is f&(ing infuriating enough.

Nopherhole has three main choice as an electric utility.

1. Take it up the a$$.
2. Buy alternative energy that is priced at the second highest cost price, that is coal. [which has doubled in price]
3. Think outside the buns.

Three is the USE space.

Three includes fibbing on the amount of coal used. The average Joe Wacko  doesn’t realize that coal comes in different flavors. Some coal is just barely beyond disintegrating vegetable matter. At the other end of the scale is super hard, high carbon coal. The energy content is doubled for the hard carbon coal, typically from the Eastern US coal mines and higher in sulphur. A large proportion of utilities have switched [because of environmental regulation] to Western Coals, which have down to half the energy in them per ton.

Long story short, sneak some Eastern coal into the mix, but count it as Western Coal. All those heavily laden trains descending from Wyoming Western Coal mines go east will have return traffic loaded with some counterfeit coal from the East.

Three also includes buying coal energy from Canada and Mexico. A little wallet grease will go a long way toward having the source for the energy labeled as wind, solar, biomass, and burning SUV’s.

Getting that energy to the United States may involve [and it must if something is really flowing], huge, million volt direct current transmission lines going north and south. These will be built through areas that have less than one person per square mile. Won’t that be lovely.

Aha you say, nopherhole forgets that North Dakota can build huge wind farms and hook those up to the huge, million volt direct current transmission lines. Wrong you wacko. If nopherhole builds a coal plant in Canada and then builds huge, million volt direct current transmission lines, nopherhole builds those lines to carry its energy only. Why? to add one more kilowatt to a huge, million Volt direct current transmission line traversing land with one person per square mile involves building huge facilities that cost $millions. Well, you say, the wind energy can pay to hook up. Wrong! Wackos complain that wind farms paying their fair share is wrong. It should be FREEEEE.

Three also includes doing stuff to the coal that some might consider “Thinking outside the buns.” Coal comes with water in it. Boiling off the water in the fire sucks up energy. So nopherhole dries his coal more to get more energy with the same amount of carbon. Nopherhole can’t think of an easy way to do this. Western coal, if it contacts too much air, spontaneously bursts into flame. And it’s a Hydrogen flame which is hard to detect. The first fatality is on Obama’s train ticket to hell.

Three also includes throwing other stuff into the fire. Mostly money, but tires, mulch and the morgue’s John Does come to mind.