[thechat] Communications Research?

[Luther, Ron]

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.)