https:\/\/archive.ph\/3nrCi<\/a><\/p>\nThe Sterman study estimated that the carbon \u201cpayback time\u201d for wood-burning ranged from 44 to 104 years<\/b>, depending on the type of forest<\/b>. In the meantime, it said, power plants that burn wood are adding CO2 to the atmosphere, just as <\/u>if they were burning coal. <\/u><\/b>
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\nAnd in the meantime, ice continues to melt, seas continue to rise, people continue to be displaced by extreme weather\u2014the scientific consensus, repeated again and again at COP26,\u00a0 is that the world can\u2019t wait to dramatically reduce its emissions.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nWhat\u2019s 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\u2014they stop removing carbon from the atmosphere<\/b>. Nothing like that happens when you mine coal.<\/b><\/span>
\nSecond, 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.<\/p>\nIn 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.<\/u> If those emissions had been counted, it would have added as much as 27 percent to the electricity sector\u2019s emissions\u2014and up to 3.6 percent to the U.K.\u2019s total greenhouse gas emissions for that year.<\/p>\n
But like other governments, the U.K. does not count CO2 emissions from wood burning.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nKEYWORDS: Biomass, carbon dioxide,<\/span>
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