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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 22, 2018, 02:28:09 pm

Title: Burning green pellets is ‘filthier than using coal’
Post by: rangerrebew on April 22, 2018, 02:28:09 pm

Burning green pellets is ‘filthier than using coal’
April 16, 2018

By Paul Homewood
 

The race to adopt green energy has led to the use of materials that are dirtier, costlier and require the felling of hardwood forests in America, it is claimed.

Acres of trees have been chopped down to create wood pellets that are shipped across the Atlantic to be burned in a British power station.

The idea is that power produced from what is called ‘biomass’ at the giant Drax power station, in North Yorkshire, is cleaner and greener than using coal.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/burning-green-pellets-is-filthier-than-using-coal/

Title: Re: Burning green pellets is ‘filthier than using coal’
Post by: Joe Wooten on April 22, 2018, 04:35:22 pm

You have to take into account the diesel used to ship them across the pond in the pollution accounting. The same math applies to paper recycling.