STEM with Cog’s 8-minute video, Coal and Coal-Fired Power Plants, electrifies the study of coal formation and coal-fired power plants. A quick time-travel-trip back 300 million years takes us to ancient swamps where trees die, fall, and are buried leading to coal formation. We look at the coal-making process through the stages of peat, lignite, sub-bituminous, bituminous, and anthracite coal. A very quick time-travel-trip through the Industrial Revolution shows how coal was used in transportatio