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
  • Should Germany run its nuclear plants longer and even restart some dirty lignite coal plants?
    — Niclas Poitiers, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Most of the lignite is burned in the Turow power plant located just next to the mine.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Fifteen of these are coal plants, 6 oil and 5 lignite, which will be put on a security alert.
    — Time, 24 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Countries do want to get rid of coal, especially the more polluting lignite variety.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Coal stocks were low, and an unofficial Chinese ban on Australian lignite meant they couldn’t quickly be replenished.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Over 300 villages were demolished for lignite mining in Germany in the past century.
    — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • For now, the Mississippi lignite once destined to fuel the Kemper County clean coal plant will remain in the ground.
    — David Wagman, IEEE Spectrum, 30 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The rule being announced today targets the burning of lignite, a softer form of coal that burns inefficiently due to a high level of contaminants.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Berlin's crusading attitude on climate change is undermined by the fact that the country still uses lignite, or brown coal, to produce around a quarter of its electricity.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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

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