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What is Coal Used For? Most people think of coal as being used only as a fuel for burning, either to heat buildings directly, or to make electricity. But coal has many other uses. ... Coal is used to make the medicines to cure diseases – from aspirin to help a headache to very special drugs to treat things like cancers.
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Almost 93% of the coal used in the United States is used for generating electricity. Except for a small amount of exports, the rest of the coal is used as a basic energy source in many industries including steel, cement, and paper.
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Coal Takes Millions of Years To Create ... Bituminous coal is used to generate electricity and is an important fuel and raw material for the steel and iron industries.
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coal is used to produse more than half of the energy we use today
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The short answer to your question is that coal is primarily used to make electricity. It is burned to boil water, which produces steam. The steam turns giant turbines (like jet engines). The turning of the turbines produces electricity.
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www.coaleducation.org/q&a/where_is_coal_used.htm
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Coal use and electricity generation have become synonymous terms in the 1990s. Wyoming coal is used to generate electricity in 36 states. Each person in the U.S. uses 20 pounds of coal every day! Coal is by far the major source of the electricity;
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www.wma-minelife.com/coal/coal0003.htm
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Lignite fragments in a hearth suggest local Palaeolithic people used it for fuel. The lignite could have come from major coal outcrops within 7 to 15 km of the sites. Coal use is otherwise unknown for Palaeolithic cultures in ... Coal may have been used for fuel primarily because wood became scarce during the last glacial...
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Researchers report that liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported from foreign countries and used for electricity generation could have 35 percent higher lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than coal used in advanced power plant technologies. ... Quicker, Easier Way To Make Coal Cleaner (Nov. 19, 2008) — Construction of new...
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