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Does Finland have a lot of coal anyway? It's easy to ban something you don't really have. Also easy for a rich country to ban coal use, but you can't expect poo
by skocznymroczny 10y ago
Does Finland have a lot of coal anyway? It's easy to ban something you don't really have. Also easy for a rich country to ban coal use, but you can't expect poorer countries to do the same, especially if by coal is how rich countries built their industries. And now they are being told to get rid of coal and replace them with wind or solar power, usually conveniently offered by foreign companies.
- orf 10y agoA lot of poorer countries are doing this voluntarily. Coal is not a necessity to becoming industrialised
- Tuna-Fish 10y agoWe have none whatsoever. Geologically, Finland rests on the Baltic shield which consists of very old rock, and it's top has been scoured clean of any newer rock by successive ice ages. If you dig down 50cm from the surface soil on which I'm standing right now, you get to granite baserock that is almost two billion years old. Rock this old does not have any fossil fuel deposits, since the first such deposits were formed some ~360M years ago. The closest thing Finland has to fossil fuels are peat bogs. And those are currently rated "slowly renewable" by both the Finnish state and the EU. This is half true -- they do replenish, but only at a rate of millimeters per year. Typically, it would take some 4000 years for a harvested peat bog to return to it's original thickness.
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoIMO peat really should be classified as a fossile fuel.
- lostlogin 10y agoThat is a good suggestion, it sort of implies it's almost a fossil even though it was likely a typo.
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