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I think it's difficult for the average person to understand the amount of carbon that is consumed in a typical coal-fired power plant. Below is a video of a train similar to what we typically see twice a day here making deliveries to one such plant. The train in the video shows 114 rail cars containing roughly a quarter million pounds of coal in each car. Roughly 85+% of that is carbon that ends up in carbon dioxide. I don't recall how many plants there are with that kind of diet but the number is large and growing. Each pound of coal produces less than 1 kilowatt-hour of energy.
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