Does eating coal give you either energy or nutrients?

Don't eat coal. I don't believe the body can absorb any of the energy found in coal anyways. The stuff is toxic if inhaled...you don't want to be eating it.

== No. Your body can't process and use coal for anything good. And it's toxic. It contains hydrocarbons within its structure that will make you sick if you eat it. You wouldn't drink gasoline. Why would you eat coal? It's not as toxic as gasoline, but contains similar flamable hydrocarbons.