The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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Looks like the Europeans and Britain have simply shifted from coal-fired power plants to wood-fired power plants: A ‘Green’ Energy Project Leaves A Mississippi Town Gasping For Air, Huffpost.

How the hell does burning wood qualify for a reduction in emissions?

It's an accounting spin, you grow the wood, you burn the wood, you grow it again for nett zero!

But nobody claims it's clean, actually it's emissions require more filtration and monitoring that some types of coal, cleaning and filtering technologies some say aren't acceptable for the continued burning of coal! :o

I read a summary once that discussed the asymmetry of carbon uptake and oxygen production during a trees life, variations that are rarely used when calculating the triple bottom line. You can imagine just how scary this is when rules and regulations only talk about sub-totals. If you infinitely extend the reporting cycle you can claim any energy method is eventually nett zero, because it's energy will ultimately result in more life, and life builds itself on carbon! As such many measures are bogus, used by bureaucrats, accountants and spin doctors.