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Coal is dead - natural gas killed it for better or worse.


check my link below. it's powering 30% of all our energy, only behind oil (33%).


*Today. More and more countries are getting rid of it in favour of cheaper and more flexible natural gas.

Sure, there's China with its insatiable appetite for energy, but few years back they too shuttered 105 coal plant projects, and this is something that's likely to continue purely because of how the economics are playing out nowadays.




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