this is disgusting. cutting down old growth trees to burn in a power plant is treated as emission free and therefore entitles this company to billions in subsidies. and they're British! fuck right off there bud I'm using those trees to fuckin breathe
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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Burning wood to make electricity is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of.
It's not that dumb because it can be a somewhat "closed system" for carbon capture. You grow trees that capture carbon, you burn them, releasing their carbon and you replace them with new trees and so on. Obviously it creates other problems like monoculture and such but as a non fossil "low carbon" energy source it could be locally interesting if you have space and water to spare.
They are burning ancient woodland. Areas of trees that have never been cut down. We're losing them and need to stop.
Well yeah that situation is definitely bad obviously. I just argued on the point of burning wood for electricity.
I’m not aware of any water to spare anywhere.