The woody biomass conundrum
By CFACT Ed, Duggan Flanakin |2019-11-11T22:33:13-05:00November 12th, 2019|
One of the major “burning issues” of the day is whether burning wood as biomass is green – or at least green enough.
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One of the major “burning issues” of the day is whether burning wood as biomass is green – or at least green enough.
Why not efficient, affordable electricity instead?
BY STEVE GOREHAM: Burning wood for electricity is just one more foolish policy in the “fight” against global warming.
Study done by UK Department of Energy and Climate Change shows surprising discoveries about the use of burning wood for energy over burning coal.
Producing electricity from the burning of wood, or biomass, has long been viewed as an environmentally friendly way of generating power. But now this once favored source of green energy is losing its luster . . .
So begins a new age of realistic military policy and an end to more than 15 years of wasteful climate change spending.
Nowhere will a change in the dynamics of energy policy be more welcome than in developing nations whose imperative to increase access to energy conflicts with pressures to submit to Western climate lords’ anti-growth, anti-humanistic, and dystopian Paris climate agreement.
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BY IDDO WERNICK: There are easier ways for humanity to avoid the problems that batteries are intended to solve.