How to Use lignite in a Sentence

lignite

noun

• The machine shown in the post is used to mine coal and lignite.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• To the south is the lunar landscape of a city-sized opencast lignite mine.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• At stake is the future of one of Poland’s largest lignite mine, located in the city of Turów.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Most of the lignite is burned in the Turow power plant located just next to the mine.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• The lignite mine near the village of Pödelwitz, Germany.
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• The plant, which broke ground in 2010, would run on lignite, a type of coal that is difficult to process but is plentiful in the region.
  — Ian Urbina, New York Times, 5 July 2016
• Some of the land is thought to still contain 200 million tons of lignite coal — some of the dirtiest coal that can be burned for fuel.
  — Rye Druzin, San Antonio Express-News, 23 May 2018
• Fifteen of these are coal plants, 6 oil and 5 lignite, which will be put on a security alert.
  — Time, 24 May 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
• Kosovo's government plans to build ​a third lignite coal power plant in Obiliq ​to replace the aging coal plants.
  — Valerie Plesch, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Take, for instance, the RK 5000, a large bucket-chain excavator working in a lignite mine in the Czech Republic.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2017
• The bucket-wheel excavator is twice as long as a soccer field and as tall as a 30-story building, and digs up 30 million tons of lignite per year.
  — Betsy Mason, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2009
• 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
• In April, after Russia cut gas supplies to Poland, the government dropped a ban on burning lignite and poor-quality coal at home.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• Because lignite sits closer to the surface than bituminous coal, workers don’t need to dig deep shafts and tunnels.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2022
• Project Tundra plans to pump the liquid CO2 into sandstone rocks that lie just over a mile beneath the nearby lignite coal mine, where it will be stored permanently.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Greece plans to double the use of lignite, a soft, emissions-heavy type of coal, to reduce the natural gas the country is using to generate electricity.
  — Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 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
• Preliminary data shows wind power alone outpaced the country’s hard coal and lignite plants last year.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2021
• And in the first of Smil's personal energy transitions, heat came not from wood, but from coal—hard black anthracite from Kladno or dirty brown lignite from North Bohemia.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
• German utilities are on course to produce 35% more power from coal and lignite in the first half than in the same period last year, according to Argus data.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• 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
• Over 300 villages were demolished for lignite mining in Germany in the past century.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
• Coal stocks were low, and an unofficial Chinese ban on Australian lignite meant they couldn’t quickly be replenished.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
• While turbines and solar panels are scattered across the country, Greece clung to oil and lignite coal for decades as vested Greek oil industry interests thwarted change.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Yet, despite the prolonged lifeline of its plants and the imminent expansion at Lützerath, RWE’s lignite operations are in decline.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
• That, Southern and Mississippi Power said, would reduce the greenhouse emissions of burning lignite by up to 65 percent.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 29 June 2017
• Kemper was designed as a prototype carbon capture, or clean coal plant that would burn gasified lignite coal and capture up to 65 percent of its carbon emissions.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 3 June 2017
• Brown coal, a greasy, low-grade fuel also known as lignite, isn’t just controversial because of the greenhouse gases its burning spews into the atmosphere.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024