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What is Irish for turf?
Are you asking about peat?
What is Ireland's famous fuel?
Peat, from the Irish peat bogs. (Peat is decayed organic material). In Ireland people call it turf.
How do you say peat in Gaelic?
Irish: móin Scottish: ?
What did the Irish burn as fuel?
Irish people did and still use peat, which is called turf in Ireland, as one major fuel. It is found in the many bogs around Ireland. There is some coal in Ireland and wood is also used as a fuel to burn. Ireland has natural gas that is burned. Oil is imported.
What natural resource do the Irish have in abundance which is used as fuel to generate electricity?
Peat
Is peat a hazardous material?
Peat is not regulated as a hazardous material in transportation. However, when dry it can burn energetically, and peat fires, like forest fires, can be very destructive of the local environment.
Why is Peat important?
Peat is important because people dig peat out of the ground to use it for heating their homes and cooking good food. Although peat produces a lot of smoke and pollutants when you burn it, it is also very helpful. Peat is found in Russia Ukraine, and Great Britain. Peat is used all around the world, in fact. Peat is the first stage in coal formation. If peat did not was not real, then there would be no coal. That is why peat is important.
What natural resource do the Irish have in abundance which is used as a fuel to generate electricity and used for cooking?
Peat (:
What can peat become if compressed long enough?
this is the order from peat to coal, peat-lignite-bituminous-anthracite- the higher up the the types, the higher BTU burn you well get, as well as a cleaner burn, but it takes more energy to get it started.
Irish fuel is Irish?
Peat is a fuel used in rural Ireland alot and is more commonly called Turf. It comes from the bogs that are all over Ireland and is burned as a fuel.
Which type of coal is used to generate electricity?
Any type of coal can be used for generating electricity. In the Victorian state of Australia they burn black coal. In South Australia they burn brown coal and in some places peat is burnt. When peat is compressed for thousands of years it turns into coal.
Why is peat dried after being cut from the bog?
Peat is used as a fuel but it comes from the wet environment of a bog. It helps if a fuel that you are trying to burn is not wet.
