| Electricity from coal | Comanche Power Station in Pueblo,
Colorado, produces 660 megawatts of electricity (net). It does so
by burning coal that comes about 500 miles from Gillette, Wyoming --- low
sulphur coal. (There is plenty of not-so-clean coal in mines near
Pueblo.)
It takes about 2 billion kilograms --- 2 million metric tons --- of coal per year to produce that electricity. This amounts to roughly 5350 metric tons of coal every day. (A small car weighs about a metric ton.) |
