In coal there is energy, this energy is stored until it's activated . Coal gets its energy from old plants and swamps from millions of year ago. So basically all coal is or is made up of is old organic material and the energy is stored in this rock which we call the rock it forms coal. Coal also if you think about it is a fossil but without the visual impression. Coal mining is such a big industry and that is because of its industrial properties . Coal is used for fuel for power plants and used to be for locomotive trains. Power plants such as lakeshore and Eastlake use coal to create electricity is the process in which the coal’s energy is then transferred to electric energy to create electricity.
Coal has some upsides but coal also has some downsides. I will start with the upsides. One upside is that coal is one energy source. Power plants that use coal produce a lot of jobs. Some the downsides include that burning coal is bad for the atmosphere. Also when the coal mining industry used to be very big a lot of people died and were injured in the poor conditions of the coal mines. The people were paid closed to nothing and the coal mines would pay them but they had a general store which the miners would buy there food from the general store so basically the employers would get the money they paid the coal miners.
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The organic material inside of the coal is the dead matter of animals and plants. Where coal is located it can be where a prehistoric swamp. Coal is as old as 100 million years old and is from the carboniferous period. The Carboniferous Period is part of the Paleozoic Period. There are is another type of coal. This coal is called Steam coal. Steam coal is just thermal coal which ground to powder and then put into a boiler to produce heat which in turn turns water to steam. Coal is made of mostly carbon but also has hydrogen, sulfur, and nitrogen. It’s also a fossil