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Pilgrim P
Pilgrim Feb 4, 2009 21:08:40
Replying to Stoneshifter

Stoneshifter wrote:
And it's such a complicated equation. By stopping up the drains, selectively, on the 'allotment' I work, in the summer, I can speed up the peat formation process and actively sequester carbon. That's supposed to be a good thing!
Hi Stoneshifter,

Here's a *medal* from the idiots who have just sanctioned the third runway! You're going to have to go some to compensate for THAT!

I'm intrigued as to peat deposition rates; I don't get out much..... :) On Dartmoor it's purported to be over 15 ft deep in places... glad that the far-seeing constructors of old put these things on slopes (and quite a few close to bus routes!)

Peace

Pilgrim

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S Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Feb 5, 2009 08:12:27
Replying to Pilgrim

I get out a lot - like for most of the summer - and am still interested in peat. It's not laid down equally. It's just decomposed sphagnum moss so wherever that's growing, in the wet, is where the peat will grow. Some places it's deep - like really deep - and some places it's soil - and there is no peat. It's a hopeless case really and, if we'd wanted to stabilise atmospheric CO2, should have started in about 1930!