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Coal Quality: Global Priorities

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U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, Virginia
September 24–26, 2001

  Coal is the primary energy source worldwide for electric power generation and is forecast to remain so through the year 2025 (International Energy Outlook 2004, Energy Information Administration, 256 p.).
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