lignite

Wind is then possibly low across much of Europe, meaning Holland and Germany ramp dispatchable capacity, including German lignite.

Arguably Germany should have turned off a few lignite plants and kept their nuclear power a little bit longer.

Heck right now, Europe is still burning coal (and worse yet - lignite coal) for electricity.

But coal and lignite power production in TWh in Germany went down over the last decades?

Meanwhile lignite mines (which Germany are re-opening) actively affect the health of everyone nearby, even when everything goes perfectly alright.

Maybe you just burn an enormous ocean-boiling amount of barely-not-peat lignite from your western states.

Okay, sure, burning lignite and using the exhaust as air heating in the children's hospital.

Filthy lignite production is twice as high and bitumen is ten times as high.

Germany started out with a high amount of coal and lignite (as a domestic source of energy with many jobs depending on it).

Meanwhile in Victoria they burn lignite [2]; it's basically ambitious peat moss.

Germany has about as much subbituminous coal & lignite reserves as U.

Coal is about as dirty as it gets (besides peat and lignite).

Lignite was third with 67 TWh and hard coal sits at 27 TWh.

That is if powered purely by Lignite/Brown Coal.