Coal

Since the beginning of the coal mining industries in the 1800s, thousands of mines have been created, extracting the precious mineral, and then dumped, empty and hollow. Once industries finished with a certain area, it would be dropped and they would move on, drilling in another location. The act of reclaiming these mines did not come to light until 1977 when the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was passed by Congress after they saw the disruption in the environment. This act put a…

The Conversion of Coal: Joshua Betthauser In the Beginning: The conversion of coal is a lengthy process which begins hundreds of millions of years ago, as a natural resource under the dirt, known as “peat”, than, over time and under pressure, it’s converted into “lignite”. Then, very many millennia later, it is transformed into “bituminous”, then into “anthracite”, the coal we know and love. www.minersmuseum.com/history-of-mining/coal-formation/ The Description: Coal begins as a natural…

Mark Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary there is a second lesson in the book that is about coal mining. The lesson is called The Cookie Mining Lesson in this lesson the students are asked to mine a cookie for the chocolate chips. The readers are implied to read inbetween the lines for the lines of the lesson to see something different that what the Coal Foundation intends for the students to learn. In Lesson 2 Students will learn how to buy land, pay employees hourly wage and more when coal is…

Coal is a commodity, which has impacted the economy, environment as well as the human history in the 19th century. The production of coal started as early as the 18th century, in Britain, but in very little quantities. It produced these quantities because of the types of mining techniques practiced in that era, such as the bell pits and drift mines. The mine places were small, and the market for the coal was domestic. Industrial revolution occurred during the era of production of coal. It is the…

The coal fired electric plant is used for to generate electricity and to produce coal . It’s used for electricity that we used today. In the U.S. we use about 50% of electricity. Even though the coal fired plant has a generation for electricity it has increased over 180%. The reason why this important because the electricity we it helps homes,businesses,vehicles and technology. That at the coal plant when they produce electricity & coal it has something to do with the air pollution from the…

Is Nuclear Energy safer to use than Coal Energy? Human beings use energy almost every day, everywhere, and at every time. This counts as one of the biggest necessities of life; we use to power our homes, towns, and cities. In order to create energy, a substance needs to be used to start the generation of energy, some of these resources include coal, water, etc. But one of the most overlooked energy producers tops the charts in safety and consistency is nuclear energy. When many humans hear…

Do you think coal mining is worth the risk involved or not? Some people might think it is. But some might think it isn't. For me I think it isn't. I am going to tell you 3 ways I think coal mining isn't worth the risk. One long term health,two it causes site accidents,and three global warming. Those are the three ways I think isn't worth the risk. First, long term health is where miners suffer from medical problems caused by working in mines. For example, COPD and black lung disease are two…

Coal Seam Gas (CSM) which some refer to as Coal Bed Methane (CBM) is one of the forms of unconventional gases that is located in coals deep in underground earth layers. The process of CSM extraction involves digging deep wells in earth, casing the wells for protection and pumping out gases and water which is already in the coals. Recovering these types of resources sometimes require simulations and fracking coal beds which involves the usage of water and chemicals. In addition, these acts of…

signifying that the river is also going downwards, also it has been contaminated according to the chart given to me, the wells that have been corrupted are D, E, H, I, and M in which all have higher than zero mg/L. Contamination started in Comhead Coal Mine and that’s an issue because it has high elevation over all other parts of the river, meaning that the corrupted water will go downwards because that’s where the water is flowing due to the low elevation. Another source of corruption is in…

Coal has been the lowest costing and largest source of electricity for Alberta to date. As it stands, coal accounts for 43 per cent, or around 6,300 megawatts, of Alberta's total electricity generation which is about 14,500 MWs, and is responsible for 65 per cent of the country's coal-fired electricity generation (Haavardsrud, Paul, Alberta's quitting coal, for better and worse). The concern however steams from the environmental issues, more specially pollution and greenhouse gases that come…