I just got done reading an article about our friends, the Europeans. It seems they are more than a bit of upset that they are paying twice as much for the power than we are and it has an economic effect...go figure. They went all in subsidizes worse rather than developing their on continent gas...because the anti-science anti-fracking crowd.
They have decided it is their best interest to open more coal fired plants and mine lignite. Lignite doesn't exactly burn as clean as hard coals but it's widely available on the continents as anyone who has read Adam Tooze's book, Wages of Destruction can tell you...see Herman Goering Works.
