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Because of its low energy density, brown coal is inefficient to transport and is not traded extensively on the world market compared to higher coal grades. It is often burned in power stations constructed very close to any mines, such as in Australia's Latrobe Valley. Carbon dioxide emissions from brown coal fired plants are generally much higher than for comparable black coal plants.
Plans for world's first pollution-free power plant also unveiled
By James Fuller
Washington File Staff Writer
Washington - U.S. officials have announced a public -private effort to construct a prototype electric and hydrogen production plant and the formation of a new international forum to advance carbon capture and storage technologies as ways to reduce the world's heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.
Originally posted by iori_komei
Well it can be good or bad.
I fyou just build coal firing plants, than yes they are bad for the
environment.
However, technology exists to make clean coal plants, that is the CO2
is not put into the atmosphere, rather it is contained, and can be dealt
with in the cleanest way possible.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Lignite also known as brown coal, produces more amounts of CO2 than black coal. Black coal is of a higher grade than brown coal.