• Gorgritch_Umie_KillaM
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    1 month ago

    Oh gawd. Lignin and fungi i’d forgotten all about that. Biology was never my strong suit!

    carbon capture is sort of a farce

    Yeah, i like your phrasing here. By no means a bad thing to promote, but not the simple silver bullet solution to net zero/GHG reduction the marketing departments of large emitting companies make it out to be.

    • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgOP
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      1 month ago

      My apologies I lied to you.

      That information is wrong, coal is still being formed today. Although mostly in bogs, which provide an environment where decay doesn’t happen.

      About a million to 10 million times slower than we are using it though, and the rate is declining relatively as bogs are cleared or mined for peat/moss and our coal use increases year on year.

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        1 month ago

        All good! I thought about peet bogs, but its been so many years since i went through the formation of coal, i wasn’t sure enough to suggest it.