>>2800491It isn't as flat in eastern America as it is is in Germany. There's generally going to be some distance involved in transporting it to a valley with a river that can host a power plant, and there's been a big transition to natural gas here for the most part, but definitely still some coal
and apparently some of the coal here is metallurgical grade, which means it is low in unwanted byproducts so that gets shipped to china where they make steel with it
So I think maybe eastern american coal is more exported than burned on site
>when you can burn it on the spot*coff coff*
