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I’ve posted about this before, but the point is worth repeating. Biomass is NOT a green solution. Burning biomass does NOT create green energy. It’s a hoax, a scam, simply more #greenwashing.

Tim Smedley is an environment writer for the Guardian, the BBC, and others. In a recent Medium article, he offers an informative and *very* angry look at the ridiculous concept of burning biomass for "clean renewable energy."
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"Burning Biomass for Electricity is Worse Than Coal"

The biomass industry destroys forests, harms health and communities worldwide (especially in North America), and emits a huge load of CO2 and PM10 pollution.

To most of us, the image of renewable power is something with zero emissions at source — a wind turbine blade slicing through the air, or solar panels soaking up the sun. Whereas burning millions of tonnes of wood pellets does exactly what you’d imagine: produces millions of tonnes of smoke particles.

Let’s be clear: burning biomass, and/or attempting to capture the CO2 with CCS, is simply a means of maintaining the status quo. It merely replaces one polluting solid fuel with another. It is not renewable or sustainable, and it certainly isn’t emissions-free.
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READ THE ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/the-new-climate/burning-biomass-for-electricity-is-worse-than-coal-a51db480b20d

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #CO2 #Pollution