Coal? What's That?

Authors

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In any analysis of the energy resources now available to the United States of America, coal occupies a dominant if not a preeminent position. The very fact that, within the borders of the U.S., there is more energy in the form of coal (more than three trillion tons) than in all of the other combined resources of fossil fuel-petroleum, natural gas, oil shale, and bituminous sandstone-makes coal loom as our most important source of energy for the remaining years of this century, and perhaps for centuries to come.

Publication Date

April 1975

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

12

Issue

2

First Page

5

Last Page

9

Comments

Reprinted from the August, 1973, issue of Energy Perspectives , a newsletter published by the Batelle Energy Program, an instrumentality of the Batelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, with permission of the editor, Richard J. Anderson.

Copyright

© Copyright 1975 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

(1975) "Coal? What's That?," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 12: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol12/iss2/3