Long Island may, in fact, burn coal some time soon.
Perhaps we should just burn coal and wire it in.
As with water and steam, air was also necessary to burn coal.
"Was it very common to burn coal for its mere heat?"
It is the only large thermal power station in the country burning black coal.
Designed to burn coal, they were converted to run on fuel oil.
Another feature are the wells used to burn coal in the 18th century.
At first they burned coal but were later converted to oil firing.
However, she burned too much coal at this pace, and normally did not run so fast.
To make one work, you need to burn coal at high temperatures and turn water into steam.