When in 1939 war did break out between Germany on the one hand, and Britain and France on the other, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dutifully invoked the Neutrality Acts. However, he believed that this was a fundamentally different war from World War I.
Another advanced coal technology is coal gasification, a process in which coal is converted to a gas (called syngas) before it is burned, making it easier to separate CO2 as a relatively pure gas before power is generated.
Coal Used in Production. Coal has benefits beyond its use as a source of power. In fact, only 85% of coal that is mined is used as a source of energy. Beyond its ability to generate electricity, coal and coal-byproducts can be used in the production and many various goods. Sometimes, the coal is used to create, super high temperature oven for processing materials, as is the case with most concretes.