Was soll den das? Quatsch!

[ToughButterCup]

Jungs, das darf wohl nicht wahr sein? 

 

https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157364

Edited September 1, 2023 by ToughButterCup

[SteamyTea]

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Whoops, that was me drying the keyboard after spilling some tea on it.

Edited September 1, 2023 by SteamyTea

[ToughButterCup]

It went down the wrong way dinn'it - your tea . Just like the Germans   went down the wrong way cuddling up to Pootin too quickly. 

Embarrassment, that's what it is.  Brown coal for God's sake Brown coal! Lignite !

 

Memories of the thickest smogs - driving through Leipzig in the 1980s, groping our way along the main roads from brazzier to brazier, with the VoPos (People's Police)   directing traffic while standing on a small dias - just above another brazier. Turn off the road and impact was assured. In my case it was a cyclists elbow. 

[SteamyTea]

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

Brown coal for God's sake Brown coal! Lignite

What is the calorific value and associated pollutants (note plural).

 

[ToughButterCup]

A handful of MegaJewls (sorry @SteamyTea - I always worry about spelling tech stuff when I worry about you reading my posts) per kilogram.

 

In addition , there's a vast - and I mean vast - amount of digging that has to be done to extract it.  The premiere mines prior to 1989 were so big that both the East and the West had to talk to one another about it because the East produced the lignite, but the West consumed it to make electricity. Those mines have now been filled with water ( or are in the course of being filled) Thats why new mines need to be dug.

 

To me the pollutants were pink dusty spit, eyes full of stuff and filthy car windows, and hoarseness. Blowing one's nose into a white handkerchief back then (1980s) was shocking. Ughh.