Victoria Converts Brown Coal To Power And Light. Australian Diary 14

Made by The National Film Board 1948. Directed by Jack S Allan. Open cut mining in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, produces tonnes of low grade brown coal that is burnt, unprocessed, in the Yallourn Power Station, which in 1948, supplied 66% of Victoria's electricity. The high moisture content of unprocessed brown coal makes it a less efficient and higher carbon dioxide producing coal. Yallourn Power Station today produces 22% of Victoria's power supply and 8% of the national market.

[@banistersmind]

Spent the first four years of my life at Yallourn. Both my grandfather's worked at the Yallourn Power Station. A lot of my family history is tied up in the Brown Power.

[@davidmaddison2628]

Australia once had a bright future based on science and reason.

[@roytonkin5929]

Yallourn Power Station still producing electricity 2017.

[@tonyneville4425]

yep and employees Pricks from Melbourne

[@neriksen]

Thanks to the idiot Greens there are now diesel generators in place. Ah but of course nobody’s mentioning that.

[@iamapopsicle9457]

Different station mate. Current is Yallourn W still old as fuck built 1973.

[@marcosmoreno4049]

Nils Eriksen really? It's as bad as lignite.

[@gold3084]

There's hundreds of years of coal in the valley but due to greenies its not going to be used !

[@20centurymodern]

Wondereful industrual video from the 20th Century! What wonderful moving images from this period, and the industrial machines! Does this plant still exist?

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks for the feedback. There were a number of power stations on the Yallourn site. All of the old ones like this have been decommissioned. There is a newer station still in operation today but they have had to go further afield for the coal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yallourn_Power_Station

[@MickeyDeeeee]

NFSA Films Nice piece of history. I once saw a short 1980's film on the demolition of a couple of the old Yallourn power stations. I've been searching for it for a decade now with no luck. Do you know of the film? thanks

[@neriksen]

The plant was stopped by our idiots mainly the Greens. Who mostly live in appartments high above the common folk using their fossil fuel made technology, drive internal combustion engine vehicle to their favourite cafe to sit eating smashed avocado on rye while drinking coffee out of non recyclable cups. Well done millennials well done. There’s your praise for today oh, and take the rest of the day off, you look tired.

[@lmlmd2714]

Authorised by Tony Abbott, MP for Warringah

[@RodsPinballVideos]

I've just recommended this one to Christine Milne ;)

[@cool386vintagetechnology6]

Terrible stuff to be burning. The narrator makes it sound like "young coal" and "moist" are good attributes when they're actually the wost kind. Still, as it's all they've got and environmental concerns were non existent, it's understandable. Interesting to learn about production of briquettes.

[@tonyneville4425]

mate co2 is plant food look it up

[@lucusinfabula]

less sulphur per unit mass

[@neriksen]

CA Monitor Top While the city dwellers sit in your technology filled room made from fossil fuels and drive internal combustion engines. Thankfully this wasteful contradictory generation have created your own demise. Australia was once great.