Folly: Germany Plans To Convert Coal Power Plant To Burn 100-Year Old Trees In Minutes!

[Elderberry]

NoTricksZone 16. June 2020

By Die kalte Sonne
(Translated/edited by P. Gosselin)

German Coal Power Plants To Be Converted: To Burn Trees

On May 2, 2020, we reported on the movie Burned. In the USA, the focus is on biomass.

However, they do not ferment fast-growing plants into gas as is the case in Europe, rather they cut down trees and burn them in power plants – often together with other things like car tires or soaked railway ties.

The issue is controversial because it is about pure ideology. Climate organisations such as 350.org, which in the USA is like Fridays For Future (FFF) in Europe, have given their blessing to this type of power generation.

The film Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore also denounces this.

Converting CO2 sinks instantly into atmospheric CO2

And so the USA is losing valuable carbon sinks and biotopes, destroying its environment and lying to itself about sustainability and the climate. A tree that takes 50 – 100 years to become big and stately, but then is burned up in a few minutes, can never have a favorable climate balance, no matter how you calculate it. Trees are the new coal, it seems.

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[roamer_1]

And so the USA is losing valuable carbon sinks and biotopes, destroying its environment and lying to itself about sustainability and the climate. A tree that takes 50 – 100 years to become big and stately, but then is burned up in a few minutes, can never have a favorable climate balance, no matter how you calculate it. Trees are the new coal, it seems.

Baloney. I can't speak to hardwood forests, but there is little in a pine forest that is 100 years old. If pine forests are not managed, they burn. I have gone where logging trucks have never been. I spent a lot of my life up  there. Even to places where logging can't go, the terrain is that rough. YES there are places where fire does not go - Places with trees so big around you can't even believe it, with a mossy ferny forests floor... But those places are few and far between.

Mostly, forest burns. Thirty years, maybe fifty years... The undergrowth and ladder fuels grow thick, lightning strikes, and the whole place burns down thousands and ten thousands of acres at a time.

So it can burn in the woods or burn in the furnace. Either way, it's going to burn.

[GtHawk]

Baloney. I can't speak to hardwood forests, but there is little in a pine forest that is 100 years old. If pine forests are not managed, they burn. I have gone where logging trucks have never been. I spent a lot of my life up  there. Even to places where logging can't go, the terrain is that rough. YES there are places where fire does not go - Places with trees so big around you can't even believe it, with a mossy ferny forests floor... But those places are few and far between.

Mostly, forest burns. Thirty years, maybe fifty years... The undergrowth and ladder fuels grow thick, lightning strikes, and the whole place burns down thousands and ten thousands of acres at a time.

So it can burn in the woods or burn in the furnace. Either way, it's going to burn.

In the 1870's the forests around Lake Tahoe were damn near clear cut to supply timbers for the gold and silver mines and it was a lot less than a hundred years for them to grow back.

[roamer_1]

In the 1870's the forests around Lake Tahoe were damn near clear cut to supply timbers for the gold and silver mines and it was a lot less than a hundred years for them to grow back.

I put culverts in on roads for clear-cutting a few decades ago, and since then, as the land here has largely been shut off to logging, and gated shut, you cannot tell where the clear cuts were, and a good portion, including parts of the clear cuts have gone up in flames. Thousands of acres of prime timber gone to hell.