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Trump Signs Executive Order for "Beautiful Clean Coal" Power and Coal Mining

Posted by freedomforall 1 week ago to Economics
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Excerpt from The White House:
"Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry. The Executive Order:

Directs the Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council to designate coal as a “mineral” under Executive Order 14241, entitling coal to all of the benefits of that prior Order.
Directs relevant agencies to identify coal resources on Federal lands, lift barriers to coal mining, and prioritize coal leasing on those lands.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acknowledge the end of the Jewell Moratorium, which paused coal leasing on Federal lands.
Requires agencies to rescind any agency policies that seek to transition the Nation away from coal production or otherwise establish preferences against coal as a generation resource.
Directs CEQ to assist agencies in adopting coal-related categorical exclusions under NEPA.
Seeks to promote coal and coal technology exports, facilitate international offtake agreements for U.S. coal, and accelerate development of coal technologies.
Calls for the Secretary of Energy to determine whether coal used in the production of steel meets the definition of a “critical material” and “critical mineral” under the Energy Act of 2020, and if so, add it to the relevant lists.
Pushes for using coal to power new artificial intelligence (AI) data.
INCREASING DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION: President Trump believes that coal is essential to our national and economic security."
SOURCE URL: https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/trump-goes-gangbusters-on-coal-your-data-centers-will-be-powered-with-coal/


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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 1 week ago
    As much as I like being able to use any resource to generate power, this executive order illustrates how difficult it is for chemical engineers like me.

    From Atlas Shrugged: "But you expect industrial giants — who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations, and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts — to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort."

    Executive orders do not allow people like me to plan in terms of decades.
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    • Posted by 1 week ago
      My take is that the EO is a reversal of the idiotic government meddling actions against hydrocarbon energy for purposely faked climate change "science."
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 1 week ago
        The EO is a step in the right direction, but a stable government consistently in the direction of enterprise has not existed here or anywhere else in my lifetime. It did in America from 1866 to 1900 and nowhere else and in no other time.
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        • Posted by CaptainKirk 6 days, 2 hours ago
          Key point: The years 1866 - 1940
          Are 1,000% Unique in human history.
          We went from outhouses, almost no indoor plumbing, and undrinkable/unsafe water where EVERY parent lost at least one child (one is none was a common phrase, my grandma had 12).

          To a world where almost no children died. Antibiotics saved most lives, indoor plumbing, and indoor electricity, the automobile, and so much more.

          We have been fortunate to be born in such historic times, where the Huns did not come and wipe us out for our women and our food.

          So, to be clear. I think Rand went a step too far with her statements, because prior to this time, only the Feudal lords could have planned generationally, much less take advantage of a 99yr lease (2.5 generations?)

          Yet, computer chip makers seem to thrive in an environment where the rate of change of tech is simply mind blowing. And the investment scale is even higher. The first silicon wafer cost BILLIONS. Every one after that is PENNIES.
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          • Posted by $ jbrenner 6 days, 1 hour ago
            I am helping a chip maker build a new fab lab about 5 minutes from work. Two other small firms and this relatively small chip maker specialize in nanoelectromechanical (resonator) systems, or NEMS. They are capable of mass resolution at 10^(-20) g (i.e. an individual DNA strand or a single protein macromolecule).
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  • Posted by KevinSchwinkendorf 4 days, 19 hours ago
    As a nuclear engineer, I fully support this order. First of all, for technical reasons, nuclear energy is not really suitable for "load following." Over a 24 hour cycle, power demand follows peaks with reduced demand in between. Demand peaks during dinner time when people are preparing meals, and demand is usually least during the middle of the night when people are asleep. However, there is always a minimum demand, for home heating, powering refrigerators, etc. If a nuclear power plant has to follow these ups and downs, reactor core temperatures also cycle, which is not good for long term materials performance. Nuclear reactors perform best when brought up to 100% full power and then left there for 2-3 years until the next refueling outage (or even longer if the reactor is a Gen IV fast reactor). On the other hand, coal (and hydro power where available) are ideally suited to fill in the demand during peak hours. So yes, what we need is an optimal mix of power generation sources, and with increased overall demand due to the massive new data and compute server centers that "big tech" wants, we need economical, reliable, and non-intermittent power sources, which wind and solar cannot possibly satisfy.
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