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(Perhaps someone can explain why "brown coal" is worse than "coal"? Extraction methods?)
It's interesting to listen to the way this company uses the words "Europe" and "European" - in many ways it's similar to the way they are used in the USA when talking about early US history: old-fashioned, bad, unenlightened and certainly not our responsibility.
(Wikipedia links to an article here - in Swedish, sorry - that sadly I don't have time to translate right now.)
That there is a renaissance of lignite is nothing short of amazing. It's like the tar sands being renamed oil sands. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
German:
wood: 17-20 MJ/kg Lignit: 20-25 MJ/kg 'soft' Braunkohle: 25.1-26.8 MJ/kg 'hard' Braunkohle: -28500 kJ/kg 'flame' Steinkohle ( = stone coal): -32.85 MJ/kg 'gas flame' Steinkohle: -33.9 MJ/kg 'gas' Steinkohle: -35.0 MJ/kg 'fat' Steinkohle: -35.4 MJ/kg 'eating' Steinkohle: -35.4 MJ/kg 'lean' Steinkohle: -35.6 MJ/kg anthracite: -36.0 MJ/kg
English:
lignite/brown coal: 10-20 MJ/kg sub-bituminous coal: 20-28 MJ/kg (with most sold in the US near the lower limit) bituminous coal: 24-35 MJ/kg anthracite: 26-33(?) MJ/kg *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I think that should be my next sig-line.
10-25 MJ/kg. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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