What is coal? Well, the definition of coal is, a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground deposits and widely used as fuel. Coal is not just what Americans use to cook their hot dogs, or start a campfires. Everything from charging your phone, to the lighting in your house ,and other major electrical appliances you use every single day. Without coal the electricity needed for these appliances would not work, ture on, light up, or wake you up. This is one of the most undermined energy sources because people do not realize what coal does for them, and how it provides for more than just a BBQ . (Kid Sciences)
Some of the everyday things that coal fuels include your home computer, the power supply on your phone, the lamp you have over your desk, your microwave, stove, conventional oven, coffee maker, alarm clock, washer and dryer, heater, and even indoor …show more content…
and in other foreign countries (The United States has about a 235 year supply of coal if it continues using coal at the same rate at which it uses coal today), it produces more than 1,000 jobs in the U.S alone, theres no other energy source that can fill coals role in providing energy to the world (Solar, Biomass, nuclear, oil, hydro, wind energy all combine cannot do what coal can do), coal provides 56% of the electricity used in the entire known world each day.It is estimated that there is nearly 542 trillion cubic feet of solid coal in the earth today. Not only do we have a lot of it, but it's easy to manufacture energy quickly and efficiently with coal. More than 2.4 million acres of mined land have been reclaimed over the past 25 years. To give a better picture of how much land that is, that’s an area larger than the state of Delaware. (Kentucky Coal
Some of the everyday things that coal fuels include your home computer, the power supply on your phone, the lamp you have over your desk, your microwave, stove, conventional oven, coffee maker, alarm clock, washer and dryer, heater, and even indoor …show more content…
and in other foreign countries (The United States has about a 235 year supply of coal if it continues using coal at the same rate at which it uses coal today), it produces more than 1,000 jobs in the U.S alone, theres no other energy source that can fill coals role in providing energy to the world (Solar, Biomass, nuclear, oil, hydro, wind energy all combine cannot do what coal can do), coal provides 56% of the electricity used in the entire known world each day.It is estimated that there is nearly 542 trillion cubic feet of solid coal in the earth today. Not only do we have a lot of it, but it's easy to manufacture energy quickly and efficiently with coal. More than 2.4 million acres of mined land have been reclaimed over the past 25 years. To give a better picture of how much land that is, that’s an area larger than the state of Delaware. (Kentucky Coal