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The Pros and Cons of Coal

As a renewable energy source

Disadvantages

  • Carbon Dioxide in dead bodies of plant and animals.
  • Coal Mining resulted in thousands of deaths

Advantages

Disadvantage

  • Coal provides stable and large-scale electricity generation
  • Coal power has a competitive production cost
  • Fuel costs are low and coal markets are well-functioning

Types of coal

The future of coal

  • Lignite
  • Sub-bituminous
  • Bituminous
  • Anthracite

Environment

Sub-bituminous

Bituminous coal

Disadvantages

Advantages

Coal

noun. a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground deposits and widely used as fuel.

The history

An Introduction

First American to discover and use coal

  • Paper, Aluminum, Chemical and Transportation Industries
  • It can be found on every continent in over 70 countries
  • biggest reserves in the USA, Russia, China and India.
  • Coal power plants emit high levels of CO2
  • Technologies to reduce coal emissions are expensive
  • Coal mining impacts landscape and infrastructure

Anthracite

  • 26 Coal companies have gone bankrupt.
  • 2009 and 2014 Coal sector index lost 76 percent
  • Pollution scrubbing technology
  • Natural gas
  • 235-year supply roughly

Lignite

Advantages

  • Coal Based Energy can be generated almost 24×7 .
  • Coal Energy Potential is quite large because of it's abundance.

Con- Mining

  • Mount Kembla
  • July 31, 1902
  • 96 dead
  • Mount Mulligan
  • September 19, 1921
  • 75-76 Dead
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