Talk:Peat in Finland

Storage

Peat decompose in the storage producing carbon losses. This can in my opinion be statistically significant compared to energy received. Watti Renew (talk) 18:51, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Wild fires

The wild fires both in the peat collection area and in the nearby forests initiated from the peat collection area have been annual news. Example a peat swamp fire in Karstula 2008: Laaja turvesuopalo Karstulassa HS 5.6.2008 Watti Renew (talk) 18:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

EU support

I have the impression that European Union has been the main financial supporter of Vapo (Suo) to cultivate energy plant after the peat collection in before that natural bogs.

In chapter Vapo the article states that Suo Oy, completely owned by Vapo, cultivates Reed canary grass after the peat collection. The company received support for energy plant cultivation. Suo Oy received 673 000 € agricultural support in 2010. This was the fifth biggest agricultural support in Finland. I have the impression that more than half of this could be from the EU. I ask your help to find out if this is true. If this is true, why the EU does not study the sustainability of the activity? This finance may be changing. Watti Renew (talk) 17:54, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Hard coal more harmful than peat?

This sentence in the intro It may be compared to brown coal (lignite) or worse than this lowest rank of coal. Peat is the most harmful energy source for global warming in Finland. (Hard coal, which is more harmful, is only used as an emergency back-up source for energy, and not in every year.) sounds very wrong to me. Hard coal is usually seen as producing less emissions than lignite per kWh. Ildottoreverde (talk) 13:45, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Ildottoreverde Yes you are right lignite is dirtier than hard coal - feel free to edit the article Chidgk1 (talk) 17:06, 1 September 2022 (UTC)