tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post333753910200144052..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Energy JobsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-16620732632230642382017-04-25T07:51:20.273-04:002017-04-25T07:51:20.273-04:00So what you're saying is that solar will produ...So what you're saying is that solar will produce huge amount of jobs as we transition to it from coal.<br /><br />Coal already creates only half as many jobs as solar. Currently, 30% of our electricity is from coal, and slightly less than 1% is from solar. So let's do a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation real quick.<br /><br />If we reduced coal power to only 15% of our total national energy production from the current 30%, basically cutting the current production in half, we'd lose 80,000 jobs.<br /><br />If we increased solar power to 15% of our total national energy production from the current 1%, basically multiplying the current production by a factor of fifteen, we'd create <i>5,220,000</i> new jobs.<br /><br />That difference is absolutely massive. Even if we assume that 80% of the new solar jobs wouldn't remain once all the new construction was done, meaning only 1 in 5 new solar jobs persisted after the transition period, we'd still create over 1,000,000 new jobs.<br /><br />In fact, we could see as much as <i>98%</i> of such new solar jobs disappear, and we'd still create over 100,000 new jobs, which would still beat out the 80,000 lost from the diminishing coal sector.<br /><br /><i>And</i> we'd still get the benefit of over 5 million temporary jobs. <i>And</i> all the benefits of transitioning to a greener power supply that produces less pollution from burning coal directly, less industrial waste from mining and processing, et cetera.<br /><br />Why the hell aren't we going about this transition faster?G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com