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Coal Anyone?
Coal Anyone?
Posted By:
crassus
12/11/2008 5:44:42 PM
Posts: 9
Points: 0
Does anyone still use coal in their home? I have never actually seen the stuff in usage. I hear all kinds of bad things about the stuff. Yet, the word is that there is still lots of coal out there and that it is an important industry in the U.S. Where should one stand on coal?
manojjonam10
Posted: 12/14/2008 1:30:56 PM
Austin, Texas
Posts: 44
Points: 0
I had never heard of people using coal. Coal is not a very good fuel as it produces too much smoke and less efficient in burning.
KrisNY
Posted: 12/16/2008 4:50:09 PM
Dansville, New York
Posts: 39
Points: 0
I haven't ever used it. I think it was more widely used back in the older days. I can remember stories about it. It would be pretty smoky and smelly.
I laughed when my gramps said I would get a bucket of coal for Christmas and my dad would say- good we will heat the house.!
Always looking for alternatives :)
DianaR
Posted: 12/18/2008 1:59:56 PM
Posts: 25
Points: 0
We have never used coal, here.
I would really happy if it stopped being used anywhere!
alcher_27
Posted: 12/18/2008 8:25:16 PM
Posts: 43
Points: 0
Coal for heating houses is as bad as coal-fired power plants. Imagine millions of smoke stacks spewing smoke that don't have pollution-control devices.
americanfuels
Posted: 2/7/2010 3:30:16 PM
Posts: 3
Points: 3
Coal is widely used for home heating. Both anthracite (hard) and bituminous (soft) are widely used throughout the United States by homes and businesses. Anthracite will never produce any visable smoke during combustion. Bituminous coal, under poor conditions will produce smoke; however, if burned in the proper appliance or in an automatic feeder (stoker) it burns w/out visable smoke and fairly low emisisons. Coal is very cost-effective, it will run- on average- about half the cost of heating oil, somtimes susbstantially less if you live close to a mining area. It is very efficient to burn, with some coal boilers aproaching 90% efficiency. It is the densest solid fuel by far, having a BTU content that can exceed 14,000/lb; wood pellets for example are only around 8,000/lb. Unfortunately there is a lot of anti-coal propaganda by people who have never seen a piece of coal and don't understand a thing about it; the mining, processing, and combustion of it included. The United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal. We have 1/3 of the WORLD's known reserves. It's about time Americans started learning about coal - not just what the talking heads on TV or the anti-coal crowd's propaganda tells them.
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