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You only need strong Green party in the country and odds will even out. As we all know Finland has more fossil fuel than Norway. Peat is basically oil, but lit
by timonoko 2y ago
You only need strong Green party in the country and odds will even out.
As we all know Finland has more fossil fuel than Norway. Peat is basically oil, but little younger. Finnish Green Party has managed to block all use of peat, because while it is totally renewable, it does not grow back fast enough.
- Peroni 2y agoConsidering it takes 1,000 years for 1m of peat to build back up, I'm not sure it's reasonable to call it renewable.
- kragen 2y agowell, you could extract it sustainably at 1000 cubic meters per square kilometer per year, and that is a thing that people have done in the past. but it's not going to be an economically competitive source of energy
- vintermann 2y agoBurning topsoil is kind of insane. Peat is not renewable on practical human timescales.
- originalvichy 2y agoPeat is worse than coal with regards to co2 emissions, so I will vote to keep it in the ground.
- master-lincoln 2y agoThat's like saying coal is renewable. E.g. Lignite (brown coal) is just Peat that was compressed over many years.