Biden’s Climate Change Agenda Literally Burns and Blows Up in Global Conflagration

Submitted by Harold Saive

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC:  Europe burns a controversial ‘renewable’ energy source: trees from the U.S.

BURNING TREES FOR FUEL DRIVING UP COST OF ELECTRICITY WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO CO2 POLLUTION
EU Demand For US Biomass Fuel Contributing to High Fuel Adjustment Costs.

As world leaders pledge more action on climate change, one so-called solution—burning trees for electricity—could undermine progress.
BY SARAH GIBBENS – PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 11, 2021
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The Sterman study estimated that the carbon “payback time” for wood-burning ranged from 44 to 104 years, depending on the type of forest. In the meantime, it said, power plants that burn wood are adding CO2 to the atmosphere, just as if they were burning coal.

And in the meantime, ice continues to melt, seas continue to rise, people continue to be displaced by extreme weather—the scientific consensus, repeated again and again at COP26,  is that the world can’t wait to dramatically reduce its emissions.

What’s more, there are at least two reasons why cutting down trees today to burn in power plants could add even more carbon to the atmosphere than burning coal. First, the trees immediately stop doing what living trees do—they stop removing carbon from the atmosphere. Nothing like that happens when you mine coal.
Second, wood burns less efficiently than coal or gas. Per kilowatt-hour (kWH) of electricity generated, it emits one and a half times the carbon dioxide of coal and three times that of natural gas.

In 2019, according to a recent report by the policy research group Chatham House, U.K. power plants burning wood pellets emitted as much as 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, roughly equal to what comes out of six to seven million car tailpipes. If those emissions had been counted, it would have added as much as 27 percent to the electricity sector’s emissions—and up to 3.6 percent to the U.K.’s total greenhouse gas emissions for that year.

But like other governments, the U.K. does not count CO2 emissions from wood burning.

KEYWORDS: Biomass, carbon dioxide,

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