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   Annie Radetzky (soupdragon@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:20:16 JST Annie Radetzky

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   • Gerry McGovern

   @gerrymcgovern just over ten years ago I was celebrating the opening of a biomass power station nearby as part of the solution to green power generation. How far we've come in such a short time... It's still burning away but now surrounded by solar arrays. I think it's important to note the rapidity of technical change and understanding over the last few years

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     Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 20:20:17 JST Gerry McGovern

     "Sustainable" biomass is suicidal on multiple levels.

     Burning wood is worse than burning coal.

     "The price of not performing such a stress test — or crash test — for global climate modeling could be very high: for if natural forests are key to climate stability due to their role in moisture transport, using them for biomass to lower CO2 emissions will only aggravate the climate situation."

     https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/forest-modeling-misses-the-water-for-the-carbon-qa-with-antonio-nobre-anastassia-makarieva/