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" Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars

Took pictures of the stage

So far from where we are

They made me think of you

They made me think of you

 

Oh, lights go down

In the moment we're lost and found

And I just wanna be by your side

If these wings could fly

For the rest of our lives... "

- BIRDY -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTXDCh2YiA

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" Sunlight comes creeping in

Illuminates our skin

We watch the day go by

Stories of all we did

It made me think of you

It made me think of you

 

Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars

Took pictures of the stage

So far from where we are

It made me think of you

It made me think of you

 

Lights go down

In the moment we're lost and found

I just want to be by your side

If these wings could fly .. "

-BIRDY-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTXDCh2YiA

 

Thank you so much in advance my dear friends for the faves, awards and comments. Forgive me if I cant respond sometimes. For sure and 100% I read all your comments and always so grateful for it. Take care my sweet friends. Hugs to all 💞

  

The odds that you exist at all are basically zero.

The probability of your existing as you is about 1 in 400 trillion (Dr Ali Benazir, Harvard, 2011) !

www.fluidr.com/photos/125601701@N03/interesting

www.fluidr.com/photos/125601701@N03/random

Tune....♪

Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars

Took pictures of the stage

So far from where we are

They made me think of you

They made me think of you

Oh lights go down

In the moment we're lost and found

And I just wanna be by your side

If these wings could fly

Oh damn these walls

In the moment we're ten feet tall

And how you told me after it all

We'd remember tonight

For the rest of our lives

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♥ Photo taken at ---> Mousehole

 

Tune....♪

Sunlight comes creepin' in

Illuminates our skin

We watched the day go by

Stories of what we did

It made me think of you

*

Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars

Took pictures of the stage

So far from where we are

Oh, lights go down

In the moment, we're lost and found

I just wanna be by your side

If these wings could fly

For the rest of ours lives ...

Visit me here Taxi ---> Frogmore

Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.

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"Just as the body's trillions of cells renew every minute, our lives can be renewed at every level when we embrace the present moment as a limitless place"

 

"Allow yourself to connect with the creative energy that flows within you always.

Is like magic.

Every experience will begin to reveal your expanded potential for change

in ways that you can't even imagine"

 

Excerpts from the current 21-day meditation experience from Oprah & Deepak (it is being offered for free for a limited time) (hoping that may help someone as it is helping me too)

 

Wishing you all a joyful International Day of Happiness and beginning of Spring 🌸. Time to celebrate blossoming, natural beauty and renewal.

 

Contribution to the #PryceBloomofSpringCampaign

 

Thank you Lawrence D. for the invitation to join this campaign.

This turned out to be my last shot of the Milky Way at the Grand Canyon that I took. When I saw the extra bright shooting star and it explode while taking this 30 second exposure, I figured it could not get any better than this.

 

One in a trillion shot I think that it also was in the focal point perfectly for this capture.

 

Needless to say I had a big grin on my face when I returned to our cabin there on the north rim. Ms. Krach as usual was not that impressed ;)

"Hold me in your heart, it has been so long since i forgot what a warm home means"

Feel free to explore, take pictures or just relax.

Share your pics to our Flickr Group:

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Enjoy & be happy ♥

 

🚕 Location

 

📣Wings

 

Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars

Took pictures of the stage

So far from where we are

They made me think of you

They made me think of you

"[...] viruses [...] since they are the basis of the evolutionary progression of the whole biological system where viruses and their hosts are constantly adapting to each other, either

gaining certain advantages or suffering considerable

losses. This is a continuous, ongoing process with a

varying rate [...]"

 

Blinov et al., Viral Component of the Human Genome

Molecular Biology, 2017, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 205–215

 

.......................

 

"Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on earth, and recent estimates suggest more than 380 trillion of them (10 times the number of bacteria) inhabit us – seemingly without causing much harm at all."

 

microbiome.mit.edu/news-events/newsletter/#:~:text=Viruse....

 

.....................

 

"The truth is we have an entire universe of flora and fauna inside of us that [...] Living inside every person are trillions of microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi [...]"

 

Dr. Zack Bush

 

....................

 

Music:

"To and Fro" by Rebecca Saunders

open.spotify.com/track/6UEPxefMJraXZ8auHrMzRO

Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake located at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada in California. Home to trillions of brine shrimp, millions of birds, and world-famous tufa towers, its tributary streams also supply water to Los Angeles, nearly 350 miles to the south. After a successful legal fight stopped excessive diversions, ongoing advocacy has shown that balanced solutions mean enough water for both people and the environment.

Location: Private Estate

  

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The Ancient Warrior

~Paul Murdoch~

 

Lie still, ye bracken-covered giants, that sleep below the soil,

You patient, silent warriors; lie still and wait a while.

Ignore the prickles on your hide and wait beneath the stars.

Till days grow long and man subsides, you’ll never journey far.

 

The parasites that scratch and dig and burrow in your skin

Will soon fall off and perish, consumed by fires within.

Tis then you’ll shed your mantle and crack the hallowed rock,

Released, at last, to fight and die; no beast will stand the shock.

 

Remember, in that instant; in death’s unfair embrace

How you once fought and won, my friend, then left without a trace.

Remember as you fade away, a new life will begin.

Remember, as you turn to dust and ride on solar winds;

 

That you will gather, one more time, to fight another day.

A billion trillion miles for here, you’ll rise and creep and sway;

And as you cool and turn to stone beneath some distant sun

Lie still and rest another age; a new world has begun.

 

Let creatures walk and scramble; they’ll scratch and dig and bore.

Lie still my ancient warrior, and take your rest once more.

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10 commandments and 10 trillion different laws

.. maybe not a Trillion but there were thousands..😁💛💚

Given the advancement in Lightroom program since I took this capture back in 2015, I wanted to revisit and process with the sky capture feature for masking, and applying the dehaze to bring out more details within the sky and Milky Way.

 

That meteor was a very bright one to the eye. Once in a trillion shot ... right spot right time.

 

At times I wish I had had my Sigma 14mm f1/8 lens for this capture, as this was taken with the Canon 17/40mm f/4 lens. Hence this was captured at ISO 8000 and 30 seconds. So the movement in the stars is more than I am used to now versus the Sigma 14mm at f1.8, ISO 6400, and 10 seconds. That lens is a prime and much sharper than the 17mm as well.

 

But ... at 10 seconds, there is good chance I may have missed the meteor in the sky. So the 30 seconds may have allowed for this capture in the end after all.

 

Food for thought ...

It never stopped raining this weekend. These are a few of trillions of raindrops (no tripod ... I'd better use one.) Danke, Paul, für die Inspiration und Hilfe! Ich bin noch nicht so weit ... aber eines Tages vielleicht?

Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake located at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada in California. Home to trillions of brine shrimp, millions of birds, and world-famous tufa towers, its tributary streams also supply water to Los Angeles, nearly 350 miles to the south. After a successful legal fight stopped excessive diversions, ongoing advocacy has shown that balanced solutions mean enough water for both people and the environment.

Location: BBBB SLStudio

Backdrop: "Darkwater"

  

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Night and Day

-M. Vijars-

 

Look - daytime as it's going greets the night-time with a glowing -

ruby, gold, vermillion (and in countless varied hues).

Watch, night-time draw it's curtain (while provocatively flirtin')

her twinkling of trillions advance slowly into view.

 

Countless aeons in their union daily celebrate communion

passing twice each revolution in their grand eternal dance

Sometimes balmy, sometimes cheery, sometimes stormy, cold and dreary

they continue on regardless in this powerful romance.

 

With their greetings and farewellings, sadly humans from their dwellings

watching the unfolding of the grandeur on display ...

failed to choose the highest accolade for the dancers in this promenade.

Well, the best that we came up with was quite simply – “Night” and “Day”.

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Pic By Pammy

 

Taken At Apyr open mic Sim

 

In the middle of the night,

I'm lying in our bed.

Thinking of you and me in the universe.

 

Stars are moving like the night we met,

The earth is turning like the time we said.

In my mind I'm searching for you, billion miles away.

 

Why do I miss you so if you're just a spec of dust,

Floating endlessly amongst the billion stars?

 

Knowing that one day we may float apart,

Meeting each other in memories.

 

Why do I love you so if you're just a spec of dust,

Floating endlessly amongst the trillion stars?

Knowing that one day we may float apart,

Meeting each other in universe

Together again,not to be apart.

So.. ⠀

The elemental composition of Earth is mostly iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, sulfur, nickel, calcium and sodium.⠀

Of these, nothing more than tiny trace amounts have been discovered anywhere else in the universe.⠀

Therefore, this remote Australian salt lake is in-fact, a vast sea of precious and galactically rare elements, floating amongst the trillions of planets and stars above it.⠀

  

1,000 litres of water pumped every second to keep the polder dry

 

This was one of the ‘big guns’ used in the battle against water. It is an improved version of earlier drainage mills and uses an Archimedean screw instead of a water wheel, enabling it to transfer around 60,000 litres of water a minute. Over its many decades of service this mill pumped trillions of litres of water from the Oostpolder in Groningen into a lake, the Zuidlaardermeer. At the back of the rotating cap is the fantail, which ensures that the mill turned to face into the wind. The mill’s brake is located inside the cap. This was operated from the outside by means of the rope hanging next to the fantail. In 1939 an electric pumping station took over the work of this mill. The mill was dismantled in 1953 and reconstructed at the museum a few years later.

  

Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.

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Object: The Andromeda Galaxy – M31 (Oct. 2018)

(Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224)

 

The 4th and last time I am doing this target. I was visiting an old friend in Nova Scotia and I needed to come up with a wideband target quickly and M31 won out.

A large spiral galaxy in our “local group” of galaxies named for the mythological princess Andromeda and located in the constellation of the same name. The galaxy is estimated to be 2.5 million light years distant and is estimated to be 220,000 light years across with a halo weighing in at 1.23 trillion solar masses containing over a trillion suns within its boundaries. Interesting to note that while the light from the near side of M31 takes 2.5 million years to reach us, the light from the far side takes 220,000 more years to reach us which is longer than humans have existed on earth.

 

Acquisition Date: October 8th to October 14th 2018 Chester, Nova Scotia

 

- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII at f/5

- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100

- Camera: Starlight Xpress Trius SX-46 (-20°C)

- Guiding: Starlight Xpress Maxi filterwheel OAG

- Guide camera: Starlight -Xpress Lodestar X2 mono

 

Filters:

Astrodon Gen II E Filters

Luminance: 25 x 300sec (125 min)

Red: 16 x 300sec (80 min)

Green: 14 x 300sec (70 min)

Blue: 20 x 300sec (100 min)

 

Total: 375 min (6.25 hours)

  

The smoke is actually trillions of puffball mushroom spores

Highest Position - Explore #2 | 15.02.2009 (Trillion thanks everyone! :D)

Explore Calendar

 

The busiest period for me at work this week... real stress :'( so hopefully i can find the time to continue posting for the next few days. If there is no sign of me, don't worry too much.. i'm just dead from work! :P Anyway for those who have been my contacts since the day i started hdr, you will find this very familiar cos this shot was posted 9 mths ago when i first started hdr & it was the 2nd hdr which i've done. I've always loved this shot but technically it was not greatly processed back then. I've re-processed this & gave it a bit more punch & vibrancy. That's partly to help me with this monday blues too! :P Can't help it..colourful shot brings me joy! :))) Have a great start to the week!

 

View LARGE On Black to feel the heavenly shine

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About

 

The Langman Grove, Klemzig (Just 5 mins walk from where i live)

 

The shot

 

Standard 3 exposure shots (-1..0..+1EV) with tripod using the Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens

 

Photomatix

 

- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option

 

Photoshop

 

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'level' to adjust the darkness of the field

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (master) to decrease the overall saturation

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to enhance the sunset

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (greens) to enhance the field

- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'photo filter' (cool blues) to enhance the blue part of the sky

- Blended 1 layer mask effect of 0 EV shot to correct the leaves & branches movement

- Stamp cloned away some stained marks from the lens

- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer

 

You

 

All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome

 

Music

 

Lionel Richie - Say You Say Me

 

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Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.

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Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.

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It seems obvious: every building has a builder. Nobody would look at this structure and conclude that it evolved through a series of random events, with no intelligent thought behind it.

 

Scientists estimate that the human body contains about 70 trillion cells. That's a remarkably big number. But what really amazes me, is that every one of those 70 trillion cells contains detailed coded instructions on how to build the whole body. That just screams "DESIGN"!

 

In his book, the Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins says of DNA:

 

This DNA can be regarded as a set of instructions for how to make a body, written in the A, T, C, G, alphabet of the nucleotides. It is as though, in every room of a gigantic building, there was a book-case containing the architect's plans for the entire building.

 

Dawkins denies that there is a God, yet admits that all living cells contain information (instructions), and even likens it to architect's plans.

 

If it is self-evident that a building has a builder, how much more obvious is it that all of creation must have a Creator?

 

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. (Hebrews 3:4)

 

can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?

Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., 2004

 

HGGT!! Protest Injustice! Resist!! Vote!!!

 

we voted early, tuesday morning...a 45 minute process from arrival to departure... well run...masks worn by all... a limited number of people inside the voting facility itself...Vote! Vote!! Vote!!!

 

hybrid camellia, 'Winter's Star Light', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

Dogs possess a sense of smell many times more sensitive than even the most advanced man-made instrument. Powerful enough to detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion.................

Given this information I am hoping that Toby will Sniff out some good images for Tomorrows Macro Mondays...

( flic.kr/p/2mo51c8 )

From last year, Brood X, the Great Eastern Brood of 17-year cicadas. Genus Magicicada. I've heard numbers as high as a trillion insects. Maybe. This still doesn't allow you to hear the background noise which is pervasively produced by these insects.

 

Thanks for looking. Isn't God a great artist?

This is White Pocket at sunset in the red wave. I can imagine trillions of tons of debris moving slowly over this landscape etching out the finale design for us to enjoy. This is truly a photographers playground.

 

This is a three image Focus Stack

Look, stars

are falling

broken, piecemeal,

chips of winter

light drifting down

over the city,

street lamps aglow,

so cold, darkening,

trucks and cars cough,

whine and slow

as ceaselessly

a trillion trillion

wings flutter softly

down onto roofs

and lawns and fill

trees with what seems

cloaks of white lace

invisible hands knit

as I sit and wait,

as I gaze upward

like a swimmer

undersea and then

the light changes

and the radio comes on

and the road ahead

begins ever so

imperceptibly

to vanish.

 

--M deO

M31 the Andromeda galaxy, can be found about 2.5 million light years distant. The galaxy contains 400 billion stars, though some estimates say up to a trillion stars. The galaxy is destined to crash into the milky way in the distant future. Does life exist, most likely it does.

This image, my best yet, is not an accurate representation of the true colour of the galaxy. But I can say the blue colour in the outer spiral arms are regions of young hot blue stars, whilst the orange central core area, is densely packed with much older yellow stars, these cannot be resolved, as they are to far away. The mass of foreground stars across the image all reside in our galaxy, the milky way. The smaller galaxies, at the bottom of the image M110 and M32 just left of centre are both gravitationally tied to the Andromeda Spiral.

61 images at iso 6400iso, at 25 seconds, stacked in deep sky stacker, with dark frames subtracted, 25 minutes in total. Canon 760D, 80mm F6 Refracter, on a driven mount, unguided.

What do dog noses have that humans don't? They possess up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in us. And the part of a dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is about 40 times greater than ours. Dogs also have something called neophilia, which means they are attracted to new and interesting odors.

 

Dogs possess a sense of smell many times more sensitive than even the most advanced man-made instrument. Powerful enough to detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion—a single drop of liquid in 20 Olympic-size swimming pools. With training, dogs can sniff out bombs and drugs, pursue suspects, and find dead bodies. And more and more, they’re being used experimentally to detect human disease—cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, and now, malaria—from smell alone.

 

Dogs' noses also function quite differently than our own. When we inhale, we smell and breathe through the same airways within our nose. When dogs inhale, a fold of tissue just inside their nostril helps to separate these two functions.

 

When we exhale through our nose, we send the spent air out the way it came in, forcing out any incoming odors. When dogs exhale, the spent air exits through the slits in the sides of their noses. The manner in which the exhaled air swirls out actually helps usher new odors into the dog's nose. More importantly, it allows dogs to sniff more or less continuously.

 

We can't wiggle our nostrils independently. Dogs can. This, along with the fact that the so-called aerodynamic reach of each of their nostrils is smaller than the distance between the nostrils, helps them to determine which nostril an odor arrived in. This aids them in locating the source of smells—we've all seen dogs on an interesting scent weave back and forth across its invisible trail.

phoenixvetcenter.com/blog/214731-how-powerful-is-a-dogs-nose

Shenzhen was the first of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) to be established by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.

As a SEZ, Shenzhen is given the privilege to embrace market capitalism policies under the guise of "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," unlike other cities in Mainland China which is based on a planned economy. As of 2018, Shenzhen has a nominal GDP of 2.42 trillion RMB (HK$2.87 trillion), which recently had surpassed neighboring Hong Kong's GDP of HK$2.85 trillion and Guangzhou's GDP of 2.29 trillion RMB (HK$2.68 trillion), making the economic output of Shenzhen the third largest out of Chinese cities, trailing behind Shanghai and Beijing. In addition, Shenzhen's GDP growth between 2016 and 2017 of 8.8% surpassed that of Hong Kong and Singapore, with 3.7% and 2.5% respectively. With a market capitalization of US$2.5 trillion as of 30 November 2018, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is the 8th largest exchange in the world.

 

----[From wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen#Special_Economic_Zone_(1980s–present) ]

Sunlight comes creeping in

Illuminates our skin

We watch the day go by

Stories of all we did

It made me think of you

It made me think of you

 

Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars

Took pictures of the stage

So far from where we are

They made me think of you

They made me think of you

 

Oh, lights go down

In the moment we're lost and found

And I just wanna be by your side

If these wings could fly

For the rest of our lives

 

I'm in a foreign state

My thoughts, they slip away

My words are leaving me

They caught an aeroplane

Because I thought of you

Just from the thought of you

 

Oh, lights go down

In the moment we're lost and found

And I just wanna be by your side

If these wings could fly

Oh, damn these walls

In the moment we're ten feet tall

And how you told me after it all

We'd remember tonight

For the rest of our lives

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTXDCh2YiA

 

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is about 2.5 million light years away from earth and home to about one trillion stars!

 

Image taken with TS Star71/347mm apo & Atik 383l+ CCD-camera

 

Exposure: Luminance 10*600s, RGB 5*300s each, H-alpha 10*900s, total: 5h25

Under a trillion stars

We danced on top of cars.

Took pictures of the stage,

So far from where we are.

They made me think of you.

...They made me think of you.

 

Oh lights go down.

In the moment we're lost and found.

I just wanna be by your side.

If these wings could fly...

For the rest of our lives.

 

youtu.be/WJTXDCh2YiA

Peat, also known as turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.

 

The peatland ecosystem is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture CO2 naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. In natural peatlands, the "annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition", but it takes "thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of 1.5 to 2.3 m [4.9 to 7.5 ft], which is the average depth of the boreal [northern] peatlands".

 

Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most common components in peat, although many other plants can contribute. The biological features of Sphagnum mosses act to create a habitat aiding peat formation, a phenomenon termed 'habitat manipulation'. Soils consisting primarily of peat are known as histosols. Peat forms in wetland conditions, where flooding or stagnant water obstructs the flow of oxygen from the atmosphere, slowing the rate of decomposition.

 

Peatlands, particularly bogs, are the primary source of peat, although less-common wetlands including fens, pocosins, and peat swamp forests also deposit peat. Landscapes covered in peat are home to specific kinds of plants including Sphagnum moss, ericaceous shrubs, and sedges (see bog for more information on this aspect of peat). Because organic matter accumulates over thousands of years, peat deposits provide records of past vegetation and climate by preserving plant remains, such as pollen. This allows the reconstruction of past environments and study changes in land use.

 

Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world. By volume, there are about 4 trillion cubic metres (5.2 trillion cubic yards) of peat in the world, covering a total of around 2% of the global land area (about 3 million square kilometres or 1.2 million square miles), containing about 8 billion terajoules of energy. Over time, the formation of peat is often the first step in the geological formation of other fossil fuels such as coal, particularly low-grade coal such as lignite.

 

Depending on the agency, peat is not generally regarded as a renewable source of energy, due to its extraction rate in industrialized countries far exceeding its slow regrowth rate of 1 mm per year, and as it is also reported that peat regrowth takes place only in 30-40% of peatlands. Because of this, the UNFCCC, and another organization affiliated with the United Nations classified peat as a fossil fuel.

 

However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has begun to classify peat as a "slowly renewable" fuel. This is also the classification used by many in the peat industry. At 106 g CO2/MJ, the carbon dioxide emission intensity of peat is higher than that of coal (at 94.6 g CO2/MJ) and natural gas (at 56.1) (IPCC).

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