{"id":33855,"date":"2021-08-03T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33855"},"modified":"2021-08-03T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:50:26","slug":"the-fall-of-a-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/03\/the-fall-of-a-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Of A King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sumner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/7\/28\/2042443\/-One-chart-shows-that-defeating-the-climate-crisis-is-not-impossible?detail=emaildkre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provides<\/a> the latest chart on American energy generation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33856\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?resize=800%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?w=1249&amp;ssl=1 1249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?resize=1024%2C537&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?resize=150%2C79&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-energy-mix-usa.jpg?resize=250%2C131&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He explains that the fall of the high pollution fuel <em>King Coal<\/em> has been absolutely epic. To my mind, it&#8217;s unfortunate that much of coal&#8217;s replacement energy has been natural gas, which also emits CO<sub>2<\/sub>, but it&#8217;s at least a start. I&#8217;d have preferred to have seen nuclear take up the slack while renewables continue to improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sumner provides the latest chart on American energy generation: He explains that the fall of the high pollution fuel King Coal has been absolutely epic. To my mind, it&#8217;s unfortunate that much of coal&#8217;s replacement energy has been natural gas, which also emits CO2, but it&#8217;s at least a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/03\/the-fall-of-a-king\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33857,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33855\/revisions\/33857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}