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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
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.
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Well you should watch the film before commenting then, because they are burning pristine logs of biomass, because they ran out of waste fuel. They also burn tires and other garbage. Note that these aren't waste to energy incinerators with proper filtering.
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As sawmills shut down, in part due to a lack of fibre, less wood waste is available, so it may be that B.C. pellet producers are resorting more and more to harvesting "marginal" forests and diseased trees.
The question is whether those trees have any value for more high-value manufacturing, like lumber or pulp and paper.
"I think it's an open question whether there is enough wood waste or 'residuals' in existence to feed these plants," Connolly told Business in Vancouver. "Our concern, as an organization, is that there will be logging of standing forests to feed, basically, their vacuums."
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https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/...iny-1.24124984
https://www.businessinsider.com/euro...-power-2015-12
Do a little Googling, you will see it is a fallacy that only waste wood is burned.