BIOMASS: ANOTHER “GREEN” FRAUD
"I would have said that nothing could exceed the folly of wind and solar energy, but biomass may come close.
This Vox article is headlined: “Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees.” You no doubt have heard of “biomass,” but likely don’t know what it actually means.
As the headline suggests, it mostly means American trees.
In the lowland forests of the American southeast, loblolly pines and cypress trees are grabbing carbon dioxide from the air right now. Using power from the sun, they release the oxygen and bind the carbon, building trunks, barks, and leaves.But much of that carbon won’t stay there. As it turns out, millions of tons of wood from these forests each year are being shipped across the Atlantic, and burned in power plants in countries like the UK and the Netherlands, in the name of slowing climate change.
This chart is revealing, to say the least.
I had no idea that burning trees played such a large role in Europe’s “green” energy initiative:
...What goes on a “renewable” list depends entirely on political influence..."
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