Sentences with phrase «a brown coal»

This is like someone would say: «I am an ecofreak, and I am in favor of brown coal power stations without filter.»

Some 300 metres beneath the plains east of Tashkent, Stalin's engineers and their successors have been burning a seam of brown coal that can't be mined conventionally.

Increasing dependence on brown coal has raised doubts about whether Berlin will hit its medium - term CO2 emission goals.

At the heart of the project is the conversion of Decin's Bynov heating plant from burning brown coal to natural gas.

«China is the largest coal consumer in the world, but it burns much lower quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon content compared to the coal burned in the US and Europe,» said Prof Guan.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine... Read more →

However, most Humic and Fulvic Acids on the market are low grade, what is known as Leonardite, or Brown Coal.

This really large brown coal mine works as an open cut mine and the commodity is transported daily to Port Augusta by rail twice a day and is solely used for producing electricity.

Through appropriate building design, behavioural change and demand management (this does not mean living like a cave - man, just using resources efficiently) and appropriate matching of energy source with demand (i.e using solar radiation, not brown coal fired electricity for water heating), it is possible to eliminate these emissions completely.

And if you need to scale back from earlier follies and burn lots more fossil fuels, even brown coal, while doubling up on green preaching, Angela Merkel has the expertise there.

At the time only 12 % of the state's electricity was from renewable sources and most of Victoria's electricity was being generated by burning highly polluting brown coal.

It is a low - grade form often called «brown coal», one step removed from harvesting peat moss.

I also consider hat natural gas driven power plants would have a better environmental footprint than that of coal, especially brown coal.

Assuming that this electricity is from a brown coal fired power station 23g of unnecessary CO2 is released to the atmosphere.

(See related, «Germany Plans to Raze Towns for Brown Coal and Cheap Energy.»)

By the mid 2020s, for example, Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to begin importing brown coal fired, carbon - capture - and - storage produced hydrogen from Australia's state of Victoria to the southern Japanese port city of Kobe.

They chose the Monash name because WW1 General Sir John Monash was instrumental in opening up the Latrobe Valley brown coal as a fuel for electricity generation for Victoria; at the time it was innovative.

The obvious choice (if we would allow it to be cheap enough) would be to replace brown coal with nuclear.

It values the low cost source of brown coal alone at $ 2.4 billion.

AGL says brown coal can still spin off cash flow even with a carbon price of more than $ 50 / t, particularly as the cost of gas and black coal is expected to increase dramatically in coming years.

AGL Energy says the cash flow from brown coal will be used to help fund its investment in renewable energy needed to meet the renewable energy target, which calls for 20 per cent of generation to come from renewable sources by 2020.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

Does AGL have another plan other than to continue running all units at Loy Yang A as base load brown coal??

Lignite, brown coal used mainly at electricity generating plants, has the lowest carboncontent and heating value and is high in ash and moisture.

UBS estimates that the load factor of lignite (brown coal) plants in Germany drops from 72 % to 59 %, while the load factor of hard coal plants drops from 47 % to 31 % by 2020.

It would make reasonable economic sense to cease using the brown coal when the current power plants using them reach the end of their useful life.

For example, Australia could decide not to use its (very extensive) brown coal deposits.

Tactfully ignoring the fact that the Kemper project has turned out to be a disaster, I thought I would scale this against an option that we can all comprehend, shutting down the brown coal power station at Hazelwood.

World - first coal to hydrogen plant trial launched in Victoria ABC Gippsland By Kellie Lazzaro Updated Thu at 2:03 pm A world - first trial to use brown coal to make hydrogen has been launched in Victoria's...

and instead has ended up building new power plants that burn lignite (dirty brown coal).

It says this means brown coal and nuclear generating capacity could fall quicker than most people would expect from the average increase in solar and wind.

Can Germany finally turn its back on brown coal?

Even Australia's biggest investor in green energy, AGL Energy, decided that buying a compensation - enriched brown coal utility, the most polluting in the country, was the best deal it could do for its shareholders.

The industry even mocked Garnaut's suggestion about the non-baseload future for brown coal generators, where they could be shut down for months and used more sparingly in times of greater demand.

Germany and other EU countries are now building new brown coal fired stns to try and fix their electricity grids after wasting over 100 bn on S&W energy for a zero return.

Realise that most of Eastern Europe still has aging, if not decrepit, brown coal based infrastructure.

In Australia it should make the RET superfluous and make gas an economic replacement for brown coal.

As carbon pricing renders Victoria's dirty brown coal - fired power uneconomic, the state's legacy coal industry could develop expertise in shifting from coal to gas to renewables.

Christoph Podewils, «As Cheap as Brown Coal: By 2010, a kWh of PV Electricity in Spain Will Cost Around 9 cents to Produce,» PHOTON International, April 2007.

Natural gas would provide the second - level of load - balancing with Victoria's aging brown coal - fired power plants remaining on standby to handle high seasonal loads.

In July, 2007, the Australian Climate Justice Program, with the support of Greenpeace, lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over HRL Limited's use of the term «clean coal» in relation to its proposed new brown coal - fired power plant in Victoria.

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine... Read more →

However, it feels that is the strongest of all brown coal generators because of its lower emissions intensity and the recent refinancing of debt.

These two technologies displace brown coal from its primary position in the electricity markets merit order (or bidding stack) and reduces their revenues and profits.

There is precedent here: South Australia's brown coal - powered Playford power plant, the dirtiest in the country, is now used only for meeting peak power needs.

The second graph shows, among other things, how brown coal emissions in particular have increased since the removal of the carbon tax.

They have now even resorted to using more dirty brown coal to keep the lights on.

You have negligible economies of scale, just a bigger, linearly costed version of my own systemic problem, a problem I dump on my neighbours and our brown coal fired power stations.