Reply #8: It all comes down to costs [View All]

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Coal is still one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest ways, to produce large amounts of energy. People are investing in alternatives right now, but the truth is that none can compete on coal when scaled up enough.

It's not wasteful, unless you consider what you are doing on the computer right now wasteful. Everyone reading this online right now believes that the benefits of going on the Internet are worth the small environmental costs of producing the energy to do so.