| 单词 | brown energy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrown energy Designating energy produced by means considered environmentally harmful or hazardous, such as that obtained from fossil fuels or nuclear fission, as distinguished from energy obtained from renewable sources. Chiefly in brown energy, brown power. Cf. green adj. 13b and green energy n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(e). ΚΠ 1997 Electr. World (N.Y.) Sept. 41/3 For each hour of every day, the price on the APX Green Power Market will reflect the existing price for ‘brown’ power, plus a market-determined green power premium. 2003 Amer. City & County (Nexis) 1 Aug. 8 The wind and solar power is commingled in a regional grid, which also contains brown power and hydropower. 2006 J. Twidell & T. Weir Renewable Energy Resources (ed. 2) xvii. vi. 549 There are two curves for brown energy in Figure 17.2: the more expensive includes the social and environmental costs. 2014 N. Klein This changes Everything (2015) Introd. 24 What concerns me is less the mechanics of the transition—the shift from brown to green energy, from sole-rider cars to mass transit, from sprawling exurbs to dense and walkable cities—than the power and ideological roadblocks that have so far prevented any of these long understood solutions from taking hold on anything close to the scale required. < as lemmas |
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