Here’s a bit of seeming contradiction that I think is a brilliant idea: the Kentucky Coal Museum is installing solar panels on its roof. It will save them money. Even better, it’s part of Kentucky’s attempt to replace coal as its primary source of energy. Read about this at the USA Today article.
In fact, the coal industry is dwindling, not just out of environmental concerns, but because of corporations’ bottom lines. Coal is too expensive to produce when alternative energy sources are available to cash in on.
Coal miners are losing jobs, and families are suffering as a result of that. They need to be retrained and hired in the energy jobs of the future, not kept in unhealthy, unsafe underground mines.