When it comes to resources we have two kinds. We have nonrenewable and renewable resources. These resources can be good or bad for the use of our environment. We need to find new ways to support our environment before we run out of our nonrenewable resources.
Coal is a nonrenewable resource which means that it cannot easily be renewed. To create the resource coal it will take billions and billions of years. Coal is formed from dead plants in swamps and other such areas in the world. Before the plants had died they absorbed energy from the sun through photosynthesis. The energy is stored into the tissue of the plants. All of this is usually called “buried sunshine” because after energy and sunshine from the sun is stored in the plant it then dies and is then buried. When the plants and trees are buried in these swampy areas layers upon layers build up over the dead remains, this process forms a soggy material called Peat. As the Earth changes different minerals build up and mix with the remains. River and seas leave behind clay, sand and other materials which bury and mix with the Peat. Weight of different things squeeze the Peat and other substances together and temperatures begin to rise and fall which then changes the Peat material even more. This then creates coal.
How do we get the coal to produce energy? Well we mine it. There are two ways to mine coal. The first way to mine coal is Surface Mining. With Surface Mining we use power shovels, conveyers, large trucks to get it. We use these tools to reach coal and then carry it to its destination. Surface Mining is closer to the surface and is considered environmentally responsible. The other way to mine coal is underground mining which also has two categories: Room and Pil...
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Coal is considerably one of the most important sources of energy in nature and is one the most significant sources for power generation worldwide. The excavation and importance of coal became mainstream and apparent during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries.
How coal is formed is quite an interesting topic. It started over millions of years ago in ancient swamps when vegetation and trees died and formed peat (it is where vegetation builds up and turns into a super messy pile of stuff). This peat was eventually covered with either dirt or sand. As the peat is covered and pressure the gas that the peat gives off starts to get trapped in the new forming coal. Several years the peat now turns to rock known as coal. As the planetary plates shift the coal moves and forms pockets and runs in the earth. Then people came along and found out how to harness is power. People had to get the coal out of the earth. One way they found out how to get it out was to dig it out of the underground tunnels to find where the coal runs. Another way to get the coal is to strip mine the coal this is where the miners remove huge amounts of dirt to get to the coal. Both of these mining techniques are extremely dangers.
It is made up of sedimentary and organic rock which is composed mainly of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Coal is straight from the ground, which also gives many men and women jobs as well as risking their lives working on the unknown underground. There are multiple ways to convert coal into energy we use in an everyday basis. The first step is the first stage of turning coal into electricity, grinding the coal into fine powder and so forth. There are pros that come from the underground such as creating over four hundred thousand volts. As of today they are growing in large economies. They say, "the cheaper the better". In this case, using coal, "the cheaper it is, the less your guaranteed". More than 1.1 billion tons are being made as of 2007. An estimated five billion people work in China 's coal mining industry. As many as 20,000 miners die in accidents each year. Yes, they do give plenty of people the opportunity of some sort of work with good pay, but it has its downfall as well such as deaths, that are pretty unexplainable. The number one con that coal causes, has to be pollution. Pollution can start from anything like throwing a water bottle after a long practice, or chemically, like a cigarette you throw out of your car. Pollution is already exposed by the refineries, factories and diesel vehicles. Pollution is the start of what changes the color and texture of our land and ocean. The coal companies use water to create the steam in the boiler taking out water from a lake, after they are finished with the water from the boiler some toxins get in the water and released into our oceans and seas. Plus, the burning of coal which is called ash, that we humans inhale even though we might not see it. Think of it as a dark, smoky layer in the bubble called an atmosphere, and we are stuck standing in the middle. Some coal mining companies are getting a bargain on federal land and skirting export royalties,
The myths must be dispelled. First of all, coal is not a bountiful. It is a nonrenewable resource and, according to a United States Geologic Survey, it is only expected...
Coal has a very negative impact on the environment, one of the main impacts on the environment is the actual process of extracting the coal from the ground. The two ways that coal is mined, underground and surface, both have different effects on the environment. The first way that coal is mined is by digging tunnels and creating mineshafts underground and then removing the coal from th...
Coal production in the world has been a revolutionary aspect for humans. Life today as we know it is easy because of the significant impact coal had during the Industrial Revolution. Coal is namely one of the cheapest energy sources available on Earth when being compare to oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy but it creates a few problems when it’s used, specifically environmental ones. Nonetheless this energy resource has been a key concept for many countries as it has provided them with a booming economy. An example would be China who is one of the largest producers and consumers of this energy resource.
Coal is the most important fossil fuel around the world and vital for its energy security. In the process of development, coal mining is one of the major industries, which is contributing towards the pollution of the environment. The power sector is the bigger consumer followed by industrial sector (steel and cement manufacturing units). It also assures the energy supply which is important for any country's development. Coal is still remains essential in producing a diverse and balanced energy mix. It is a major fuel generating electricity worldwide. Coal is poised with different toxins which affect the environment and one of the key challenges coal industries is facing today. Coal is less effective and energy efficient compared to other fossil
The U.S. alone produces 1 billion tons of coal annually, which is about 12% of the world’s supply and we’re second to China. The presence of coal in every continent and over seventy nations around the world has enabled the supply that’s almost eternal in nature. Some of the highest reserves are in China, The U.S., Russia, and India. The generation of coal can
Resources are the beautiful gift of nature for human being and a primary assets to the nation’s economy. Resources are features of environment that have great importance and value to human in one form or the other. However, the advancement of modern civilization has had a great impact on our planet's natural resources with rapid increase of population, the use is also going to increase along with misuse of resources, thus disturbing its potential productive Capacity.
So, what is coal? Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation and organisms that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago.
The best conditions for coal to form are slow, constant subsidence, levees, beaches, and bars which give protection, and a limited supply of sediments that would stop peat formation (Coal 2005). With these conditions, the plant matter is able to build up. Bacterial decay through microorganisms begins to occur and peat is formed.
Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock of organic origin made mainly of Carbon 50 – 98 per cent, Hydrogen 3 -13 per cent and oxygen. There is also small amounts of nitrogen, sulphur, and other elements. Some water is always present. Coal is also a fossil fuel and is a non-renewable resource. The major coal (BLACK COAL) has may uses for example generating electricity in power stations,
Coal is one of the most frequently used fossil fuels in this country. The United States Energy Information Administration claims that in 2014, the U.S. generated 4,093 kilowatthours of electricity. 67% of that was generated by fossil fuels. Of that 67%, 39% of that was coal.18 Coal is in abundance across the country and has no evidence of running out any time soon. With this abundance in coal, there are new tactics being used to convert the hazardous chemicals into a more clean type of energy. This is accomplished by the implementation of clean carbon capture. The price of mining coal is relatively cheap, this is going to contribute to the continuation of burning coal unless there is a cheaper more readily available resource.
There are three types of fossil fuels- coal, crude oil, and natural gas. Coal was formed very slowly. Even the “newest” coal we use today was formed a million years ago. Most of the coal we use was formed 300 million years ago, when the Earth was covered with swamps. When plants and trees died, they sank to the bottoms of the swamps. These plants and trees were layered on top of each other, forming a substance called peat. Peat is considered the first stage in coal formation. It is a mixture of water, leaves, braches, and other plant debris. Over time, the Earth changed, and deposits of sand, clay, and other minerals were formed, burying the peat. Sedimentary rock...
Burning and mining coal for fuel is harmful to the environment but because how cheap and easy it is to find many people are unwilling to give it up as a fuel source. One of the problems with coal is that they are limited and are non-renewable so once it has been used we won’t be able to use it again.