NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1175
arrow-up1175external-link‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comNightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareduplexsystemlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·10 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-up3·10 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-up2·10 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.