What will be the replacement for Peat Briquettes

99nsr125

saabsaab wrote: »

Aye. Got a bale of German? briquettes recently not a patch of BnaM. Dirty to handle hard to light and less flame.

Lignite I'd say
Germany has a ton of it

They started burning that ridiculously dirty fuel after pressure to close their nuclear plant by the lo la greens.

Lo las

99nsr125

kaizer13 wrote: »

Burning of any material, solid, liquid or gas for home heating is unsustainable, primitive and damaging to health and to the environment.

And how exactly do you suggest people provide heat

Clodi

Lidl and Aldi will sell them imported from Germany. Madness

PalLimerick

The replacement for peat briquettes in Ireland will be German peat briquettes. Madness.

Mimon

99nsr125 wrote: »

And how exactly do you suggest people provide heat

My house is perfectly warm with LPG. Still a fossil fuel but a hell of a lot better than putting our one genuinely unique ecosystems up in smoke.

That ecosystem is a very efficient capturer of C02 so destroying it to burn is a double whammy. Future generations will look back in bewilderment that we kept doing it for so long.

99nsr125

Mimon wrote: »

My house is perfectly warm with LPG. Still a fossil fuel but a hell of a lot better than putting our one genuinely unique ecosystems up in smoke.

That ecosystem is a very efficient capturer of C02 so destroying it to burn is a double whammy. Future generations will look back in bewilderment that we kept doing it for so long.

The post I was questioning also mentioned gas.

Gas is actual a fossil and a renewable fuel and is an excellent way of heating your home generating power and as a feedstock to industry.

We may never be able to scale up the renewable part but for populations outside of urban areas sewage treatment plants can provide a significant offset to their heat and power demand.

https://www.evoqua.com/en/case-studies/milton-municipal-biogas-cover/

https://waste-management-world.com/a/40-000-tpa-food-waste-to-biogas-plant-opened-at-bristol-sewage-works

monseiur

PalLimerick wrote: »

The replacement for peat briquettes in Ireland will be German peat briquettes. Madness.

Madness indeed.
Bord na Mona were forced to stop harvesting peat moss by the green lu las to save the planet don't you know !!
Now we're importing thousands of tons of the stuff from Latvia and other east European countries - that's some carbon foot print, perhaps someone should extract their green heads from their posteriors and tell them.
If it wasn't so serious it would be laughable. Imagine the Eskimos being forced to import ice and snow and not allowed touch what's on their own doorsetp.

saabsaab

Pity the cutaway boglands couldn't be repurposed to grow biomass and turn it into renewable bio briquettes. A win-win?

It reminds me of the sugar factories shut down. What replaced them?