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Coal Hard Facts Chapter 5

Coal Hard Facts Chapter 5. Myriah Santistevan. Demand of Electricity. Increase in Energy between 1990-2007 Oil by 25.3% Coal by 42.5% End Coal “Red-headed stepchild of the modern business” Premature Deaths (London, China) Wide-spread use of mountaintop-removal mining Pollution

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Coal Hard Facts Chapter 5

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  1. Coal Hard FactsChapter 5 Myriah Santistevan

  2. Demand of Electricity • Increase in Energy between 1990-2007 • Oil by 25.3% • Coal by 42.5% • End Coal • “Red-headed stepchild of the modern business” • Premature Deaths (London, China) • Wide-spread use of mountaintop-removal mining • Pollution • Acid rain • Airborne Particles • High levels of Mercury • Lead (176000 lbs) • Chromium (161000 lbs) • Arsenic (100000 lbs)

  3. Electricity Generation • Biggest Increase Between 1990-2007 • China (452%) • Indonesia (353%) • United Arab Emirates (352%) • Malaysia (321%) • Qatar (307%) • Global increased by 70% • U.S. electric output rose 35.5% • Highest Per-Capita Electricity Consumption • Iceland • Norway • Finland • Canada • Qatar

  4. Electricity Generation • Lowest Energy Consumption • Gaza • Chad • Burundi • Central African Republic • Rwanda • Much of the new power is generated with coal • “To help bring people out of poverty we need to help them increase the amount of electricity they generate and distribute.”-Alan Pasternak

  5. Coal Production is Increasing • Not controlled by an organization like Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries • The US is adding coal-firing capacity at a rate that is far greater than the rates for wind and solar capacity (1995-2008) • Coal-284,959,000 additional megawatt hours per year • Wind-48,862,000 megawatt hours per year • Solar-346,000 megawatt hours per year

  6. Questions?

  7. My Questions • Name two types of pollution that coal gives off. • What is coal known as in the business world?

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