Does Coal Have a Future?

... all the types of hydrocarbons, coal has been in use the longest. China is known to have extracted coal as early as the 4 th century ... ... it also imports between 20 and 25 million tonnes annually from Kazakhstan for electricity generation purposes in several cities ... ... gas grows cheaper due to the gradual increase in the number of LNG suppliers and improvements to the regasification infrastructure,... ... past 20 years). Coal is one of the major air pollutants in the European Union. It is no coincidence that almost all the most polluted ...