Sentences with phrase «using brown coal»

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.

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...

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Just one of those excesses is the wasteful use of energy, which if repeated would leave the country under a pall of filthy brown - coal smoke and make a mockery of any idea of restricting the world's output of carbon dioxide.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed legislation that will phase out the use of coal for Oregonians» electricity, and the CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway conceded that fossil fuels are «probably dead.»

I assume if I help produce solar panels and windmill parts or electric cars that I have a green job, but is this still the case if I use energy from brown coal to produce them?

Conversion of German generation data to Specific Carbon Intensity uses emissions factors of 1150g, 900g, 369 g, and 983 g of CO2 per KWh for lignite (brown coal), hard coal, natural gas, and biomass respectively.

The conditions are shared by virtually all the so - called Brown Dogs who come from manufacturing states and those that produce or use large amounts of coal.

In her view, coal is a major culprit, especially the brown coal lignite used in much of the country.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

Due to Australia's plentiful reserves of cheap coal, the liberalisation of the power industry has favoured its use, especially that of Victorian brown coal, which has become the primary fuel source for generation in the four southern states of the NEM.

And competition in the electricity market has so far favoured use of brown coal, leading to increased emissions.

Following an overseas tour in 1911, Herbert Reah Harper, engineer with the Melbourne City Council Electricity Supply Department, recognised the potential for Victorian brown coal, after seeing Germany's use, and recommended the establishment of a public utility on the lines of the Ontario Hydro Electricity.

By the end of the decade brown coal was used to generate 90 per cent of Victoria's electricity supply, with all of the coal sourced from open cut mines under SECV control.

The state basically depended on a high tension line from another state (Victoria) as backup, which largely uses power generated using polluting brown coal.

We used to import a lot of power from Victoria that was generated in some of the dirtiest brown coal - fired power stations in Australia.