Coal is cheap. At only a few cents per kilowatt-hour, it usually costs less than natural gas and nuclear power, its chief competitors. Coal’s low nominal price and its abundance are the main reasons it is so heavily used. In the United States, for instance, coal accounts for 45 percent of all electricity generation, more […]
Author Archives: Tom Prugh
Thomas Prugh is codirector of the State of the World 2013 and State of the World 2014 projects for the Worldwatch Institute, and an editor and contributing writer for the Bhutan Secretariat for the New Development Paradigm.