The Future is now

It takes five times as many coal miners and coal power plant workers to produce a megawatt-hour of electricity as employees in the wind power sector, 50% more than gas and twice as many as solar.  Safety issues with nuclear bumps up employee numbers, with 9,000 armed guards at the nation’s 62 nuclear facilities.
Last month, Vistra Energy closed a power plant in Texas, along with a mine that supplied it with coal via a 15-mile long conveyor belt.  In total, 450 positions were eliminated.  Later this summer, Vistra plans to open one of the largest solar farms in the country in West Texas that will employ two people who might only work part-time.

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