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One day, Nate was watching TV when Ella walked in.
“What are you watching Nate?” Nate answers “A special on
coal energy.” Ella says “What’s coal energy?” “Well, coal is a
fossil fuel that helps produce energy. In fact, our ---.” Suddenly
the lights went out. “What happened” they both said. A few
minutes later the lights flickered back on. “That was weird, why
did the lights go off.” Nate asked Ella. Later Nate’s mother
came in and told Nate and Ella that there was a power outage in
their neighborhood.



The next day, at school, Nate and Ella went up to their teacher, Mr.
Ming, for an explanation on coal energy.
“Coal is a fossil fuel that can produce energy.” Mr. Ming says. Nate
said “Like what?”.
“Well, the energy is then used to produce electricity or power, in
simpler terms.” said Mr.Ming.
Nate and Ella became even more interested. They wanted to learn so
much more. Luckily, their class was going on a field trip to a coal
power plant tomorrow.



The next day Nate and Ella went to school excited about the field
trip. “Hurry kids, line up we are about to leave for the power plant!”
Mr. Ming said. When the school bus arrived in front of the power plant,
the children saw big puffs of gray smoke coming out of big towers. All
the students said, “ Wow!” looking at them, pointing their fingers.























Ella, Nate, and their classmates walked into the Laramie County
coal power plant for the tour. All the kids gathered into small groups
and started exploring the plant with their tour guides and chaperones.
They were very eager to explore.


As they went around the power plant, the guide explained how
they used coal to make energy. “1. The coal is heated and cooled by
water. 2. The cooling coal creates steam that turns a turbine. 3. The
turbine turns a generator on that makes electricity. The electricity is
what you use in your home when you're watching T.V. or using the
computer. Did you notice the big gray smoke clouds outside? We call
them big towers stacks. The smoke coming out of the stacks are
greenhouse gases being released into the air from the coal process."



“The government does not want to use coal energy because of the
greenhouse gases being released. The greenhouse gases are bad
because if there is too much in the air, it can cause global warming”,
said Mr. Ming.



“The government is working to find ways to reduce the use of coal
energy by using wind energy, solar energy, and other renewable
energy sources”, said the guide.” “Preferably wind energy since we get
a lot of wind here in Cheyenne, Wyoming.” “Wind is also free and
getting it won’t be a problem except for when wind speeds are low.”

“So what can we do? We’re small” Ella says. “It does not
matter whether your small or big. You can do anything.” says the tour
guide. “Yeah, Ella. We can help and make a big difference.” says
Nate,“We can use the computer less, not watch as much TV and
remember to turn off the lights when we leave a room”, said Nate.







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The bold words within the text are located in the glossary.
This book was created and published on StoryJumper™
©2010 StoryJumper, Inc. All rights reserved.
Publish your own children's book:
www.storyjumper.com







One day, Nate was watching TV when Ella walked in.
“What are you watching Nate?” Nate answers “A special on
coal energy.” Ella says “What’s coal energy?” “Well, coal is a
fossil fuel that helps produce energy. In fact, our ---.” Suddenly
the lights went out. “What happened” they both said. A few
minutes later the lights flickered back on. “That was weird, why
did the lights go off.” Nate asked Ella. Later Nate’s mother
came in and told Nate and Ella that there was a power outage in
their neighborhood.


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