How to Use brown coal in a Sentence

brown coal

noun

• Everything changed after the discovery of the brown coal, in the late 18th century.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2022
• The share in the electricity mix of brown coal (lignite), the cheapest and dirtiest sort, has remained stable for two decades.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Germany’s last deep-shaft black coal mine closed in December, but open-cast lignite, or brown coal, mines still operate.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• Black or brown hydrogen uses black coal or lignite (brown coal) in the hydrogen-making process.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• Remarkably, this trend is even sweeping up brown coal, or lignite, a cheap-and-dirty variety that’s been seen as more resilient than Germany’s costlier black coal.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• The plant produces 20 percent of Poland’s electricity, but does so by burning an especially dirty form of coal known as lignite or brown coal.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
• This could abate greenhouse gases produced elsewhere, such as from Germany’s heavily polluting brown coal plants.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2021
• Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, has the world's fifth largest reserve of brown coal, considered the dirtiest fossil fuel.
  — Valerie Plesch, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
• The liquid hydrogen will be produced in Latrobe Valley, Victoria through a brown coal gasification process.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
• Some regions, particularly in the less prosperous east, are heavily dependent on mining lignite, or brown coal.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• Those swamps accumulated brown coal that now fuels about a quarter of German electricity generation.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 18 June 2018

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