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California's clean energy jobs equal 10 times the nation's coal mining jobs (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2017 OP
Short-term profit Lotusflower70 Jun 2017 #1
this isn't about jobs, it is about clean energy being reviled as "liberal" Thomas Hurt Jun 2017 #2
The numbers are a little exaggerated but they do underline the trend Brother Buzz Jun 2017 #3
K n R stopwastingmymoney Jun 2017 #4
Pretty important caveats in there about what jobs are being counted petronius Jun 2017 #5

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)
1. Short-term profit
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 06:46 PM
Jun 2017

That's all Trump is looking at. He wants a quick money grab and to screw the rest of us.

Brother Buzz

(36,463 posts)
3. The numbers are a little exaggerated but they do underline the trend
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 09:33 PM
Jun 2017

The coal industry ain't dead, but it's circling the drain.

By the end of 2016, the coal industry employed approximately 50,000 miners.[20] Compared to 260,000 Americans working in the solar industry.[21]

US employment in coal mining peaked in 1923, when there were 863,000 coal miners.[22] Since then, mechanization has greatly improved productivity in coal mining, so that employment has declined at the same time coal production increased. The average number of coal mining employees declined to 50,500 in 2016.[23] This was below the previous low of 70,000 in 2003, and the lowest number of US coal miners in at least 125 years.[24][25]

Because of the sharp declines in the U.S. coal industry, the Harvard Business Review discussed retraining coal workers for solar photovoltaic employment because of the rapid rise in U.S. solar jobs.[26] A recent study indicated that this was technically possible and would account for only 5% of the industrial revenue from a single year to provide coal workers with job security in the energy industry as whole (Wasn't Hillary Clinton pitching this harebrained scheme? )

petronius

(26,603 posts)
5. Pretty important caveats in there about what jobs are being counted
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 01:59 PM
Jun 2017

in each category, as the 'clean energy' job category seems a little vague, but the economic benefit and linkages of clean energy development is undeniable.

I'd really like to see a tighter accounting of specific 'green' jobs, those directly analogous to fossil fuel extraction and processing work, and the pay rates associated with them...

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