{"id":5125,"date":"2017-12-13T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2018-03-09T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:19:16","slug":"coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2017\/12\/13\/coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal is a non-renewable energy source and it is also a fossil fuel.\u00a0 Fossil fuels are a source of energy that takes millions of years to form and people use them so much that someday they will run out; coal is a fossil fuel. To produce electricity coal is burned to heat water and produce steam; the steam then propels the blades of the turbine. Then it is attached to a generator and this produces electricity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ng-isolate-scope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duke-energy.com\/_\/media\/images\/in-copy\/content-wide-how-coal-fired-plants-work-illustration.jpg?h=351&amp;w=750&amp;la=en\" alt=\"electricity from coal\" width=\"391\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are advantages and disadvantages about coal. The <strong>advantages<\/strong> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coal can be found in a lot of places and there is still plenty in the UK<\/li>\n<li>Coal can be easily transported to the power station<\/li>\n<li>Coal is a relatively cheap energy source<\/li>\n<li>There are many coal reserves in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coal <strong>disadvantages<\/strong> are:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXO142451577\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXO142451577\">To dig up coal, we have to dig up mines and they can be dangerous<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transporting coal by lorry and train mine to the power station causes pollution in the world<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Coal is a non-renewable source and will eventually run out in around 100 years<\/li>\n<li>Burning coal releases greenhouse gases which add to global warming\n<div class=\"multicolumn-body row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-4 leftside-layout multicolumn-layout col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-8 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-lg-8\">\n<div class=\"rich-text-editor ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"multicolumn-body row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-4 leftside-layout multicolumn-layout col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-8 col-md-offset-2 col-md-8 col-lg-offset-2 col-lg-8\">\n<div class=\"rich-text-editor ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal is a non-renewable energy source and it is also a fossil fuel.\u00a0 Fossil fuels are a source of energy that takes millions of years to form and people use them so much that someday they will run out; coal is a fossil fuel. To produce electricity coal is burned to heat water and produce &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2017\/12\/13\/coal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251400,4241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-royce-science-prize-2","category-stem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}