Posts Tagged ‘coal’

Question: Does the state of West Virginia have a lot of air pollution because of the very strong Coal Industry there?
Pure curiosity. Does anyone have stats on air pollution in that state?

Answer:

Answer by REX
West Virginia has all sorts of pollution.
The air pollution from the coal industry there is mostly underground however.

Question: Coal is abundant in central Pennsylvania. What can you conclude about the climate of that area long ago?
Coal is abundant in central Pennsylvania. What can you conclude about the climate of that area long ago?

Answer:

Answer by Emily C
That it was able to support the large amounts of plant life to form the coal layers

Amazing turnaround Survival of Coal Township Recycling Center was once in doubt; now it’s turning a profit
COAL TOWNSHIP – Before Charlie Shuey took over managing operations at the Coal Township Recycling Center in 2007, the facility was operating at a $ 40,000 annual deficit and the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) was threatening to force t
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Ind. recyclers get grant for 2012 Super Bowl
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – A statewide recycling group has won a $ 124,000 grant to help fans at next year’s Super Bowl keep things tidy in the game’s host city by installing recycling bins around downtown Indianapolis.
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Recycling Plant Expected to Create 250 Jobs
Florence, SC (AP) — Groundbreaking ceremonies are being held for a $ 150 million battery recycling plant in Florence.
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I’ve heard that it takes water to power anything, so does it take more water to deliver electricity from renewable sources(solar,wind,geothermal,tidal) or from nonrenewable sources(coal,natural gas,oil)?

Please include web sources, this is for a research project.
(Does it take any water to TRANSFER energy from sources)

I did not mean does it take water to collect energy.

If we’re talking about conventional electric cars that have to be plugged in, you have to consider how that electricity is being generated. The majority of power plants in this country are COAL-POWERED. If we all had electric cars, we wouldn’t have any exhaust coming out of the cars, but there would be a lot more coal being burned to generate the electricity to charge the cars’ batteries. So how does that reduce pollution?

I hope to move abroad to Lamma Island in Hong Kong. However, on the island there sits a giant coal firing power plant – about 300 metres away from where I plan to live. I’m really sensitive to pollution and I don’t know how much pollution would settle around the plant and how much would be carried away further afield. Any helpful answers would be much appreciated.