Coal With temperatures rising and ice melting, the issue of energy consumption and production has gained more and more attention. In the United States we have focused our attention to the most prevalent forms of our energy consumption, fossil fuels. In this assignment I was assigned a specific fossil: coal. With about half of the nation’s electricity coming from coal fire power plants in the 2000s (down to about 16% in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration), it […]
