Your stove and furnace burn the natural gas and you use this energy to cook your food and heat your house. Natural gas also goes to factories and to power plants to make electricity. Power plants also burn coal to make electricity. Coal is mined deep underground or in strip mines closer to the surface. California uses only a little bit of coal because it is not found in California.
Most coal used in California comes from other states.
It is shipped to our state in railroad cars. Return to Energy Quest.