Yes coal is easy to extract. Especially surface mining. Underground mining is a little more difficult
Coal is the remains of ancient plant life. It does not incorporate precious metals to any significant degree.
The energy in coal is chemical energy. The usual way to extract it is to burn the coal converting it to heat energy. This can then be turned into electrical energy Fuels like gasoline and coal are sources of energy which means they store energy
An easy way to get lots of coal when you have a lot of gold is to go to the bazaar in olde town and then you can buy as much as coal as you want.
Coal is abundant and easy to harvest from the earth to produce electricity relative to nuclear energy. Solar energy is abundant but difficult to harvest compared to coal.
Smelting is primarily a process of firing an ore to extract the metal from it. Coal doesn't really have any metal in it; carbon is a non-metal. There's nothing to smelt. The process of smelting coal isn't something one would consider. Coal can be burned to create heat. It can be heated to recover coal gas, the volatile compounds that are in the coal but can be extracted (driven off) by heating in an atmosphere without oxygen.
a coal miner
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coal is kind of easy to find
Because you cannot extract coal from a mine when youre halfway across the earth.
Because coal and petroleum are themselves fossil fuels.
sure
Coal is the remains of ancient plant life. It does not incorporate precious metals to any significant degree.
They use mommies and daddies to make babies and the babies become coal miners
Cheap, quick, easy to use, easy to get
Open cast and mining are the 2 used
The energy in coal is chemical energy. The usual way to extract it is to burn the coal converting it to heat energy. This can then be turned into electrical energy Fuels like gasoline and coal are sources of energy which means they store energy
There are two reasons for the cost of coal to rise. First, inflation causes the cost of everything to rise. Secondly, in mining, you extract the easiest deposits first, and as they are exhausted, you mine the more difficult deposits, which cost more to extract. People have mined coal for thousands of years, and we are gradually going deeper and deeper.