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Research challenges the popular belief that biofuels are better for the environment
January 25, 2018 by Meredith Somers  , MIT Sloan School of Management


The European Union is raising the bar for renewable energy goals, but some climate change experts say the new targets could do more harm than good.

A new report from MIT Sloan professor John Sterman supports the growing argument that burning wood pellets for power is worse for the climate than burning coal, because of the short-term effects and the "potentially irreversible impacts that may arise before the long-run benefits are realized."


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-popular-belief-biofuels-environment.html#jCp

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From article, the idiot enviro-wacko:

You're better off if you keep your money. In the same way, it's better to keep the trees on the land and keep all that carbon out of the atmosphere."

Instead of burning wood to stay warm, this fool prefers to die in the cold.

As Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid"
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell