When coal burns, it produces heat. This can be converted to other forms of energy.
Before electricity, Coal was used for heat. Coal heat was used to create steam for steam engines on railroads and ships in transportation.
Coal is used for electricity and industrial uses
bituminous coal
The coal is used mostly to generate electricity.
for making electricity
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Coal is burned which produces heat, the heat is used to boil water which then is used to drive a steam turbine which then produces electricity.
Coal generates about half of the electricity used in the United States.
Coal is mostly used for electricity production nowadays
It is used to make electricity.
Electricty is a form of energy. Coal can be used as fuel for a power plant to generate electricity, among other things.
like coal ,petrolem are the fossil fuels