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I need to know what % of power is produced from coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, solar, hydro?


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Me→☺　When I get cookies　☺←Me asked:


I need sources too, I would prefer a source that says the percentage of all major types of power production (I mean stuff like coal power or hydro)

is it cheaper to produce electricity through wood burning power plant compared to conventional methods?


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S H asked:


Two questions.

1) is it cheaper to produce electricity through wood burning power plant compared to conventional methods like, hydral, natural gas, coal? if yes or no, how cheap and expensive would it be comparitively?

2) Does it take more capital cost per MW of electricity to build the wood burning power plant and does it take 5, 10 times more space than say coal burning power plant?


does the energy from a power plant originally come from the sun?


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dancinem07 asked:


I know that a power plant burning coal originally gets its energy from the sun, but How did the energy come from the sun? When did the energy come from the sun?

Have you ever built a small coal powered furnace to melt metal?


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stuntdouble_uk asked:


And what materials did you find worked best?
I’m wanting to reach around 1000C. The goal is to melt small amounts of Silver (melting point 960C).
Oh and it still needs to be coal powered rather than gas powered.