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‘Beautiful’ coal and ‘ugly’ solar? A visual comparison of energy projects.

The Washington Post · last updated

President Donald Trump’s plans for the future of American energy don’t include wind or solar. One argument he has trotted out lately: They’re “ugly as hell.”

Trump has said he wants to meet growing U.S. energy demands using nuclear, oil, gas and especially coal.

“I call it clean, beautiful coal,” he told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo this week. “I don’t want windmills destroying our place. I don’t want these solar things where they go for miles and they cover up a half a mountain that are ugly as hell.”

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