Picture a charcoal grill. When you cook on it, you end up with ash. Eventually, you have to clean out the grill.
The same thing happens at coal-fired power plants. After decades of burning coal to generate electricity, power companies have a lot of coal ash. Georgia Power estimates it has about 86 million tons statewide.
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