[thechat] Communications Research?
Luther, Ron
Ron.Luther at hp.com
Fri Mar 24 10:37:29 CST 2006
John Handelaar wrote:
>>You know we generate electricity by burning peat here, right?
Hi John,
Welllll ... Yes & No. I mean, I've read about it - sure. Mostly in
older stories set in rural
areas where peat seemed to be pretty handy stuff! Useful for
construction, insulation, and fuel!
It sounded like the cottages were made _of_ peat as well as heated _by_
peat.
(Oddly enough no one seemed particularly worried about living and
sleeping inside a large fuel
cell. Fatalistic lot, eh?)
But not in a 'practical' sense. I've dug some peat as a lad to store
our nightcrawlers in
(keeps them lively for fishing). And I have kind of a vague mental
image of what I suspect
a peat farm might look (and smell) like.
The looks of which, actually, might not be too terribly far off the
mark:
http://www.usga.org/turf/articles/construction/general/where_does_peat.h
tml
Folks here often purchase bags of 'Michigan peat' for their gardening
needs.
But I don't think I have a good concept of this industrial 'compressed'
kind of peat.
And I'm most likely completely clueless on the difference, if any,
between 'peat' and 'turf'.
But I did watch an interminably long (and dead slow nearly to the point
of making you
yearn for Vogon poetry as a less painful death) film (wish I could
remember it's name)
about a fellow who managed the 'pitch', which is, again, a quite
different matter.
RonL.
Quick reminder: No. Not ALL Southerners actually eat dirt. (Although
many have recommended
that *others* take up the practice.)
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