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