NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down13
arrow-up1172arrow-down1external-link‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comNightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareduplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·9 months agoI learned recently coal is not renewable at all. We will never get more coal. Coal exists from a period of time when trees had cellulose but bacteria had no means of breaking down cellulose.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoSo we need to stick entire forests into a microwave, and then ship the sterile wood to mars, and bury it for a few billion years?
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoWouldn’t work. You wouldn’t be able to so. Pletely sterilise the wood. There will always be bacteria on it and even inside it.
I learned recently coal is not renewable at all. We will never get more coal. Coal exists from a period of time when trees had cellulose but bacteria had no means of breaking down cellulose.
So we need to stick entire forests into a microwave, and then ship the sterile wood to mars, and bury it for a few billion years?
Wouldn’t work. You wouldn’t be able to so. Pletely sterilise the wood. There will always be bacteria on it and even inside it.