Coal Heating is Kind of Nasty

Anthracite coal home heating, aka smokeless coal is fairly common in Northern Pennsylvania. Bitmous coal for rural home heating is much more common in Southern Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Bitmous coal is pretty nasty fuel to burn with a home coal stoves, it burns black and sooty like some plastics until its up to temperature when you can see the blue color of the sulfur in the white smoke. Makes wood smoke look clean.