Coal, You Can't Have Any

Almost excatly half of America's electricity comes from coal burning power plants.





Coal is also quite useful for transport fuel, no not the steam engine trains, but automobiles. Did you know that during WWII Germany ran their entire war machine on coal? Yep, sure did, airplanes ships, tanks all of it -- Using the Fisher-Tropsch process, often called coal-to-liquids, developed in the 1920s. It yields gasoline and diesel at $30-$40 per barrel oil equivalent.

The USA has about 27% of the world's coal resource.