Advantages and Disadvantages The advantages are that coal is very cheap, coal factories can be built almost everywhere. And the disadvantages are that it causes a lot of pollution, produces more carbon dioxide than oil and gas and it can be difficult and dangerous.
Coal is a black rock that is used to make electricity.
Burning Coal Diagram of “How Coal gets turned into electricity”.
Steam turning turbines and turbines turn generator to produce electricity
Coal burning water and producing steam