Many of us always think that coal is an old-school energy source. Actually, coal is still the most abundant and widely used as energy source in the world. Since 2000, the use of coal has grown faster than the usage of any other fuel like oil or gas. Coal has generated almost half of the electricity in America. People used to call coal as black diamond for years. Why? It’s because of Coal has numerous advantages as energy resource. Below are the advantages of coals.
Below are the advantages of coals.
- Coal is available in abundance around the globe. Different from oil and natural gas, which are available in only certain places of the world. Coal as a solid makes it easier and safer to transport than other energy sources. Due to its simplicity of storage and easy to transport, making it as commodity that easy to distribute, thus making coal the world’s easiest available choice of energy.
- To use coal, you just have it and use it that makes it as the biggest advantage than other resources of energy like oil and natural gas, which need a long process of refinement before they are available for use by consumers. Coal is very easy to store, you can use it in any time you need.
- Coal is resource of energy that can be used for multipurpose. Coal can be used as a domestic fuel and manufacture purposes like creating electricity, transportation, heating and molding purposes.
- Coal is the cheaper form of energy than any other energy resources because of the abundance of coal, easy accessibility and cheaper mode of transportation.
