Microsoft Word - Coal Energy

Nonrenewable means that it cannot be produced in a scale which can sustain its consumption rate. These resources often exist in a fixed amount, or are consumed much faster than nature can recreate them. This is a diagram of a coal power station. This is bituminous coal

Coal is a flammable black or brownish-black rock collected mostly of carbon and water carbons. Coal is a nonrenewable energy source because it takes millions of years to create. The energy in coal comes from the energy stored by plants that lived millions of years ago. For millions of years, a layer of dead plants was covered by layers of water and dirt, trapping the energy of the dead plants. The heat and force from the top layers helped the plant leftovers turn into what we today call coal. Coal is burnt and is sent towards turbines and turns the turbine to power generators and give us electricity