Per pound : coal.
Its pure carbon, wood is a mixture of organic substances (including water).
Anthracite is the highest grade of coal that produces the least pollution and most energy per unit. It is also known as stone coal, or black coal.
The world's 70% of the energy comes from coal or fossil fuel based power, most of the countries currently use Nuclear as their leading power supply, one such example is France which produces 90% of its energy from Nuclear fuel
In Europe, Poland produces the most coal.
Most is generated by coal burners in Toronto, Ohio. It produces the electricity for the area.
Coal is the second most popular fossil fuel. Before, it used to be the main industrial energy source. 35 percent of all commercial energy source is produced from coal. Now that coal is more expensive to remove from the ground than petroleum. Petroleum is the most popular energy source used today.
As a fossil fuel, all coal produces pollution. Most countries are trying to get away from using coal as a source of energy.
The cooking fuel that is the "dirtiest" has to be coal. This fuel source produces the most greenhouse gases than any of the "-tane" fuels.
Coal is an important energy source of the nature. Coal is the most significant source for power generation worldwide, and coalbed methane production in most of the countries. Coal gasification produces Hydrogen that is used in making ammonia, and for upgrading fossil fuels.
Coal is the main fuel for electricity.
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Coal accounts for most of the (electrical) energy provided by fossil fuels globally.
The most useful energy that coal provides is as a fuel for combustion; we have to burn it. Burning coal creats heat we can use to boil water, turning it to steam, and then we use the steam to drive turbines to make electricity.