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Your liking for nuclear weapons will last up until Putin starts using them, "tactically", daring us to respond.

Generally, coal and its infrastructure are much less suited to automatic handling and to substitution for other things than is liquid fuel. A combined-cycle turbine is happy to run on NG, kerosene, ammonia, hydrogen, soy oil, or beef tallow. Meanwhile, steam turbines need frequent very expensive overhaul, because superheated, high pressure steam is nasty.

I, too, expect war, particularly after civilization collapses because we failed to slow climate catastrophe enough. The US will not survive that as a single entity. Long distance transmission lines will be destroyed early on, even before power plants.