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Old 06-10-2003, 10:12 AM
martin
 
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:41:15 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
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The message m
from Bry contains these words:

ned wrote:

....... just as it is wrong to mine any mineral? Coal? Oil?

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ned [/b]


Not quite, a peat bog is a carbon sink that actively collects the
carbon from the environment and locks it up, then over millions of
years it sinks down further in to the ground and is burried. Eventually
it will become coal.


pedant


Brown coal?
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Martin