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Considering it takes 1,000 years for 1m of peat to build back up, I'm not sure it's reasonable to call it renewable.


well, you could extract it sustainably at 1000 cubic meters per square kilometer per year, and that is a thing that people have done in the past. but it's not going to be an economically competitive source of energy




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