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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Of them coal miners.Coal for Electricity Generation. In the United States, 60% of the electricity comes from coal generation. A typical coal fired power plant, like the one in this picture, heats water to 540 deg C to produce high pressure steam. To produce 109 kWh/year of power, the plant burns 20,000 tons of coal every day.Electricity Production (Fun Facts About Coal)Thoothukudi PowerplantCoal currently provides 40 percent of the world’s electricity needs. Most of the coal produced in the United States is burned in power plants to generate electricity. Wisconsin’s electric power plants consume 94 percent of all coal delivered to the state, dominating electricity generation in Wisconsin. In 2022, coal provided 80 percent of the state’s net electricity generation.This is one of the fun facts about coal.Reserves(Fun Facts About Coal)As of 2020, the U.S. had 580 billion short tons of known coal reserves. Of this, about 356 billion short tons (53 percent) are mineable. Most known coal reserves are in Wyoming, followed by West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Wisconsin has no known coal deposits. (See U.S. Coal Deposits). Based on U.S. coal production in 2013 at 984.8 million short tons, the U.S. estimated recoverable coal reserves would last about 261 years. The actual number of years that those reserves will last depends on changes in production and reserves estimates.Some refer to the U.S. as the “Saudi Arabia of coal” because it has more than one-fourth of the world’s mineable reserves. Current known world coal reserves are estimated to be 861 billion tons. The biggest mineable reserves can be found in China, the U.S., India, Indonesia, and Russia.This is one of the fun facts about coal.Important Facts about coal miningCoal is extracted from underground and from surface mines (sometimes called strip mines). Since coal is deposited in broad layers
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