[Stoves] Off-topic news: Biomass power is not climate-neutral

[Traveller]

This is about US wood being exported to the Drax station in England.

"The growing transatlantic trade is being financed with billions of dollars
in European climate subsidies
<http://reports.climatecentral.org/pulp-fiction/1/> because of a regulatory
loophole that allows wood energy to count as if it’s as clean as solar or
wind energy, when in reality it’s often worse for the climate than burning
coal. Only the pollution released when wood pellets are produced and
transported is counted on climate ledgers. Actual pollution from the
smokestack — by far the greatest source of carbon pollution from wood
energy — is overlooked."

E.U. loophole counts wood energy as “carbon neutral.” It’s not.
<http://grist.org/article/e-u-loophole-counts-wood-energy-as-carbon-neutral-its-not/>
John
Upton, Grist, 1 January 2017

Why wasn't such loophole applied to cookstoves project, I wonder.

Bean-counters for the poor, unite!

Nikhil

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