Holy train loads Batman!

I found this article that lists the dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the world.

Now unfortunately, the numbers don't mean anything to me, as there's nothing to compare them to, such as a natural gas power plant. I did manage to find a site that shows some values for comparison between coal and natural gas and oil here. If those figures are to be believed, coal produces almost double the amount of CO2 and 2500 times as much sulfur dioxide. But is that regular coal or brown coal? Who knows.

Anyway, the fact from the article that really got me was how the Scherer power plant in Georgia, US gets its coal.

"Scherer burns through an average of three train-loads of coal per day - coal hauled in from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, 1,800 miles away. At any given time, BNSF has thirty-six different two-mile long coal trains somewhere on the ten-day round trip between Wyoming and Georgia."