Burning trees and tree-made products to make electricity is OK, despite the huge amount of pollution released into the air, because replacement trees grown in cut-down areas will soak up all the bad stuff pumped out by factories making renewable electricity. (Twenty, thirty years from now?)
Even though the UK’s pellet-burning plant “is among the biggest sources of carbon dioxide and PM10 (particulate matter of 10 micrometres and smaller) air pollution of all EU power stations – when biomass emissions are included – more even than some of Europe’s dirtiest coal plants.”
The official measure of bad stuff “excludes these biomass emissions from its total count, because – like the EU – it treats bioenergy as immediately carbon neutral on the assumption that forest regrowth soaks up the carbon again.”
“Immediately carbon-neutral.” Or, lauded and praised before being praised and lauded.
“Your measurements exceed the standards. Oh, you’re burning wood! That’s OK, then.”
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at Maggie’s Farm.
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