In some countries, such as Ireland and Finland, peat is one of the foundations of energy security. Peat briquettes not only heat houses and administrative buildings. On the turf, whole power plants are quite successful...

Com: Proxy: I do not understand just how stones, glass and metal are removed from this land, which is passed through a meat grinder. Or do they have no nails and other artifacts in the land? :)

Thank you, dear Vladimir Kum! Honestly, I did not even think about the fact that peat can be harvested so mechanically. On vacation she went to the Smolensk region. I remember how my old grandfather and father dug the peat themselves with wide spades. Mosquitoes, heat, but this was the most productive time for work. Peat was considered worse than good firewood, but the swamps were near, then in the village it was the usual fuel. Purchased firewood collective farmers could not afford. Coal was rarely taken. Cutting the young people where permitted by the forestry, wood was brought on horses home. I remember, I was put on top, on the drogue, loaded with thin trunks of birch and aspen. I also remember how the neighboring marshes were drained in the grandfather's collective farm, and drainage ditches were made. Then they plowed the fields. Collective farmers were allowed to collect swamp driftwood, they were called "kurchi" here. It was more valuable fuel than peat. Dry withers burned in the winter with a hot flame. Thank you, Vladimir, I learned a lot of new things and remembered a lot ...