• mrmule@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Guessing this is only for industry, but hopefully the knock on effect will be less use domestically. Having been in small town Ireland, the amount of pollution generated by home coal fires is crazy. It feels like stepping back to industrial revolution times, at 6pm when everyone lights up their fires is choke inducing.

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      11 months ago

      I would imagine it is turf, the coal is “Smokeless” for the most part. But your point stands.

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          11 months ago

          Yes, there are a lot of bogs here and residential properties sometimes have their own allotment to gather peat for the year, drying iver the summer.