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    Germany Plans to Raze Towns for Brown Coal and Cheap Energy

    Villages face the bulldozer as one of Europe’s renewable energy leaders leans more heavily on an old habit.

    By Andrew Curry, for National Geographic

    PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 13, 2014


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    Giant machines dig for brown coal, or lignite, at Vattenfall's mining operation near Jänschwalde, Germany, in the Lausitz region. Its planned expansion could force relocation of towns.



    A Revolution in Trouble
    Unfortunately for Atterwasch and similar towns, experts say Germany's energy revolution is in danger—and more coal could indeed be on its way. In 2012, newly opened coal-fired power plants added 2,743 megawatts to the country's grid. (See related quiz: "What You Don't Know About Electricity.") Germany is the world's largest producer of brown coal, and 2013 was the biggest year for lignite-fired energy production in the country since 1990, with 162 billion kilowatt-hours produced, or about 26 percent of Germany's total electricity...



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