ENERGY - On True Cost, New Clean Energy Is Beating Coal

Renewable energy is becoming more and more competitive, to the point now that new generation from wind costs less than conventional coal-fired generation – and can even give natural gas a run for its money. Solar PV, too, is emerging as a more economically viable energy source.So say researchers writing in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences who folded the U.S. government’s fairly modest estimates for the environmental and health da ...

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