@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 5 months ago‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1175
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minus-square@9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink25•5 months agoI mean… Technically fossil fuels are renewable… They’re just renewing at a VERY slow pace
minus-square@duplexsystemlink14•5 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-square@AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•5 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-square@jol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink2•5 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 mean… Technically fossil fuels are renewable… They’re just renewing at a VERY slow pace
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.