from a capex perspective maybe you’re right, but coal needs miners forever and allow any man with a strong back to put microwaveable food on the TV tray. Don’t need nearly as many people to maintain a wind farm as you do to feed a coal plant or ten.

(I’m not pro coal or anything, but I just don’t share the view that transitioning to higher tech solutions doesn’t have negative externalities—it does but they are borne by people largely outside the conversation, much like global heating).