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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Sorry. Are you saying (1) using wood by-product is bad, or (2) a company lying about using wood by-product is bad.
And if it's a company lying about it, is that really 'going Green?
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Burning wood pallets for power needs is terrible for the environment in terms of carbon emissions. Worse than natural gas, and perhaps even coal from the quick search I did.
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While biomass is billed as renewable, burning wood pellets releases more carbon dioxide than burning natural gas, experts said; in addition to the actual burning, carbon dioxide is released during harvesting, drying, debarking, pelletizing and transportation. “You’re emitting more carbon from the power plant than you would be if you were burning fossil fuels,” said Timothy D. Searchinger, a senior research scholar at the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. There are additional carbon costs as well, such as the fuel spent shipping pellets across the ocean.
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https://nationalpress.org/topic/are-...rse-than-coal/
Again, every country has products that can use wood waste that do not involve 'burning' them. Those industries should be supported as the waste is kept as a carbon store for many years.