That version of the story goes something like this: On July 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed from Lae, New Guinea in Earhartâs Lockheed Electra 10, on what was to be the longest portion of Earhartâs highly publicized round-the-world flight.
The youngest coal is not even coal yet -- peat. Peat is a traditional fuel in parts of the world, like Ireland, where it is cut from the earth, dried, and burned for heat. The energy content of peat is quite low. Young coal is called lignite, and is soft and brown, not much different than dried peat.
Well, if you ever did, here's the answer to your pondering. On average, a ton of coal produces 21 to 22 gigajoules of energy. The amount of energy produced by a ton of coal is largely dependent upon the type of coal being burned. There are four major categories of coal, each differing in composition and age. Lignite, also known as brown coal, is the least valuable of the four.