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Environment & Energy

Blues Heron

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1. The coal-based CO2 is carbon from millions of years ago so its an addition to the current carbon budget

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 07:02 AM

Aug 2024

whereas biomass simply returns carbon taken up by the biomass relatively recently so not affecting the overall carbon budget.Its misleading to just compare the amount of CO2 without talking about the source of the actual carbon and what it does to the earths carbon cycle.

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"Sustinable" Biomass Plant Produces 4X CO2 Of UK's Last Coal Plant, More Than Next 4 Most Polluting Plants Combined [View all] hatrack Aug 2024 OP

The coal-based CO2 is carbon from millions of years ago so its an addition to the current carbon budget Blues Heron Aug 2024 #1

One of the obvious things overlooked by apologists for this sort of thing is kinetics. NNadir Aug 2024 #2

Oh, but they only process downed and diseased timber for pellets!!! hatrack Aug 2024 #3

If one cannot lie, one cannot really be involved in marketing. The most abused word in energy marketing is "green." NNadir Aug 2024 #4

There's another aspect here OKIsItJustMe Aug 2024 #5