Displacing Mountaintop Removal Mining with Wind Turbines [National Wind Watch]

Perhaps wind power is the solution to stopping mountaintop removal, for a wide variety of reasons that seem reasonably well presented here.

Displacing Mountaintop Removal Mining with Wind Turbines [National Wind Watch]

• We calculate a mountaintop removal offset (MRO) of 22.8%, which is the product of and accounts for:

• Potential coal displacement, based on the percentage of Appalachian region electricity generated with coal (65.3%).*5
• Potential surface mine displacement, based on the percentage of Appalachian region coal extracted by surface mining (34.9%).*6