Coal is pretty amazing stuff. A single fist-size lump of bituminous coal contains about 12,000 Btu-enough energy to power a 75-watt bulb for two days. It's relatively easy to dig out of the ground and dirt-cheap: about one-sixth the cost of oil or natural gas per Btu. Most of the modern industrial world we see around us was built with coal power.
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