That's something that people can relate too, and may shortly have the added value of illustrating how central heating uses the fuel more efficiently than the kitchen stove.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Energy | Burning waste paper pellets | Plant Services
Each 1.5 tons of pelletized paper has the energy equivalent of one ton of coal.
Fossil-fuel power plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A large coal train called a "unit train" may be two kilometers (over a mile) long, containing 100 cars with 100 tons of coal in each one, for a total load of 10,000 tons. A large plant under full load requires at least one coal delivery this size every day.
peak usage was 33,000 Mw last summer so you'd need 17 large power plants to run New York
so that's about 78 days electricity if you burned the money in power stations, running constantly at their peak output. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
