When in 1939 war did break out between Germany on the one hand, and Britain and France on the other, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dutifully invoked the Neutrality Acts. However, he believed that this was a fundamentally different war from World War I.
Another advanced coal technology is coal gasification, a process in which coal is converted to a gas (called syngas) before it is burned, making it easier to separate CO2 as a relatively pure gas before power is generated.
Releasing Coalâs Energy. The process of converting coal into electricity has multiple steps and is similar to the process used to convert oil and natural gas into electricity: A machine called a pulverizer grinds the coal into a fine powder.