{"id":21531,"date":"2026-02-18T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21531"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:20:57","slug":"coal-is-extremely-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21531","title":{"rendered":"Coal is Extremely Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Compared to the alternatives, coal is worse for air pollution, worse for ocean pollution, worse for global warming, uses more&nbsp;water, is less efficient, and costs more. Coal was a competitive source of energy before we had modern gas plants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coal is Extremely Dumb\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IfvBx4D0Cms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to the alternatives, coal is worse for air pollution, worse for ocean pollution, worse for global warming, uses more water, is less efficient, and costs more. Coal was a competitive source of energy before we had modern gas plants. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IfvBx4D0Cms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[977,105,1296,221,913,235,1218,104,1234,1085,359,694,1887,170,1156],"class_list":["post-21531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-air-pollution","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-donald-trump","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-gas","tag-global-warming","tag-natural-gas","tag-ocean","tag-pollution","tag-power","tag-power-plants","tag-trump","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21532,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531\/revisions\/21532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}