NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down13
arrow-up1174arrow-down1external-link‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewablewww.theguardian.comNightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-square9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year agoI mean… Technically fossil fuels are renewable… They’re just renewing at a VERY slow pace
minus-squareduplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year 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-up3·1 year 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-up2·1 year 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.