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OKIsItJustMe

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5. There's another aspect here

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 11:05 AM

Aug 2024

In the natural course of events, when a tree dies, it falls to the forest floor, where, over time, it is broken down by armies of bacteria, fungi, worms, beetles, even fire, and the nutrients it drew from the soil are returned to the soil. When a tree is cut down and taken from the forest, those nutrients are “lost” to the forest.

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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