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Depending on what specific information you seek regarding coal plants, the best resources for learning about coal plants are from history and reference books. Websites such as UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) have a website with information regarding coal including extraction, pollution and supply. Wikipedia also documents a brief history of coal mining. The Discovery site also offers an article about coal mining and coal plants.
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Which produces more radioactivity in the atmosphere coal fire power plants or nuclear power plants?
Coal fired plants.
Why are there more coal power plants then solar power plants?
There are more coal plants than solar plants because the cost per Mega-Watt is much less using coal than solar power, and currently coal is more efficient. The problem today is that in a environmentally conscious society coal is a 'dirty' fuel, and solar power is clean. That is why environmentalists are pushing for more Solar (and wind) power generation.
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Coal fired plants release 100 times more radioactivity than nuclear power plants due to the natural presence of thorium and uranium in the coal true or false?
FALSE
What do you call someone who burns charcoal?
A coal miner.A coal ship.[Middle English colier, from col, coal, from Old English.]Read more: collier
How does hydroelectricity reduce the affects of global warming?
Hydroplants make power from water, so its clean energy, unlike coal plants who burn coal to make electricity. The more hydroplants replace the coal plants, less CO2 emisions and less impact on the ozone layer.
What are coal buckets used for?
Coal buckets are used for holding a small amount of coal for homes which use devices that require coal. You can learn more about this at the Wikipedia. Once on the website, type "Coal scuttle" into the search field at the top of the page and press enter to bring up the information.
What explains how coal deposits formed?
A coal deposit is a lenticular layer of carbon and carbon compounds formed from the remains of plants and basically ancient Geography explains how coal deposits are formed. To get a coal deposit you need the plants to be growing in swampy conditions so that as plants grow and then die, they fall into the the swamp waters to be replaced by new plants so that in time, a thick layer of dead plants builds up at the bottom the swamp (you need about 3 feet depth of plant matter to eventually form 1 foot of coal). You then need to rapidly bury the dead plants with sediments (sand and mud) before it rots away. Thus we need a swampy place for plants to grow which, every so often, is subject to deposits of sediment. Today we call these places River Deltas. Once the swamp gets buried by more and more sediments, the water gets squeezed out of the plants and over time, as the swamp get buried ever deeper, the heat from inside the earth changes the plants into coal.
What is the source of coal energy?
Dead marsh plants. The majority of coal (and the best grades: bituminous and anthracite) is from plants that died during the Carboniferous (this was before the first dinosaurs lived). Small amounts of very low grade coal (lignite and peat) are much more recent (with some still forming now).
Is burning coal to create steam in power plants the use of nonrenewable energy source?
Depends on where it came from. If this is mined coal( which it usually is) it's nonrenewable. If it is coal made from dead wood, this is renewable. We can always grow more trees.
Why were Nuclear Power Stations made?
Nuclear power plants were made in the hope of providing a more efficient source of electricity than is obtained from coal powered plants.
Do nuclear power plants pollute more than coal power plants?
No. Nuclear power is more efficient because nuclear power is used as splitting atoms, making big bursts of energy, whereas coal power is simply burning coal. So nuclear power uses uranium fission to create energy (electricity), whereas coal power burns coal, emitting carbon. (Mind you, nuclear energy leaves behind radioactive waste - that is arguably easier to deal with for the time being. Not to mention that accidents at nuclear plants can have devastating environmental effects.
