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

[Frank Shields]

Nikhil, 

I’m thinking the energy used to make the pellets and transport are from fossil fuel. The CO2 released during combustion is from a tree that once took it out of the air. And during combustion is now releasing it back into the air - carbon neutral. 





Thanks

Frank
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> On Jan 2, 2017, at 12:35 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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