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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Oh, the other really good point it focuses on is biomass burning, which is just a bonkers idea unless it is using total waste product. Harvesting and burning full trees to burn for energy (instead of natural gas) has got to be the most counter-productive activity imaginable.
Watching the enviros uhm and ah over it was kinda funny "well I like to burn wood to heat my cabin, so I can't really denounce it without looking like a hypocrite" was a pretty bad look.
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I'll start by saying I haven't seen the film.
Biomass is almost exclusively waste materials, so if they aren't representing it that way, it's false. It's not the best, but it is at least carbon neutral theoretically as plants capture carbon from the atmosphere as they grow and then when they're burned the same carbon is returned to the atmosphere. However, scale it up and you are producing a lot of pollutant particulate matter into the air, so that would need to be managed to ensure air quality. Overall, it's just one solution of many that need to be implemented to reduce carbon load. Notice how I said reduce and not eliminate? We simply need to get to a manageable load for the planet to manage in a carbon cycle. What we are doing now can't last, full stop.