• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPM
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    9 months ago

    Unfortunately, this is really common in soil science news articles. They are written so a 5th grader can read them.

    The amount of cussing I did with every mention of the word ‘dirt’

    Finally, if it’s soil microbes, they are part of the soil biome, and thus it’s not technically wrong.

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      9 months ago

      I definitely got the impression from the title that somehow someone had come up with a way to turn literal dirt into energy.

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        9 months ago

        Like the mineral component?

        Yeah, that’d be hard. Unsustainable too. Just look at sand mining for an example of how bad that would be.