I go into coal fired power plants all of the time. The coal that they use is a hybrid mixture of coals thats low in sulphur to meet EPA standards, but is high in acid. I'm certain that it burns much better than wood does under most conventional methods of burning wood, and it actually has a tendency to burn spontaneously at certain temps. I've seen it burn in bunkers within the plants while waiting to be added into the burners, and that's not a good thing. Under the right conditions, coal works fine. Has a tendency to create methane gas in underground pockets below piles. I've seen it explode too. I've seen coal blow the entire sides off of two power plants and several breaker/crusher houses and twist super thick steel girders 3' across.
Coal can be good. You wanna see something neat? Google "coal gasification" and go to our department of energy's website about it. Breaks coal down into three components to provide power for power plants, not burning it in any conventional methods. Turns it into clean burning gas to power the turbins, also into a biproduct of hydrogen for those proposed hydrogen cars, and another biproduct, I forget but think was a useable form of amonia. All of its components are good and useable, with one problem...its coal, and when people hear "coal", its followed by banning, and trouble, even though isn't burned as conventional coal.
Incidentally, without getting into politics, it may have changed, but a few years ago there were only two places in the world were the low sulphur coal that the EPA requires the power plants to use. One is in Utah, right where it was turned into federal parks land a couple of decades ago by a president whose name I won't mention. Its off limits to everyone. The other place is Indonesia, where a fella by the name of James Riady was the chairman of the Lippo group, who overseas that coal, delivered huge campaign contributions to the party of the president that turned all of that land in Utah into US park land. I'm not going to name the president, but it can be Googled because it happened. Riady is banned from the US now, and politics aside, some others should've gone to jail and prison over that, but didn't. Google James Riady and Lippo Group, and follow the trail that put our low sulphur coal off limits for Indonesian coal.
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