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JaegerDread t1_irx8x37 wrote

Reply to comment by agha0013 in UK to build first grid connected Fusion Power plant by noelcowardspeaksout

"But biofuel is a renewable and sustainable energy source!" Say the EU bureaucrats.

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this_is_not_doge t1_irxw6r0 wrote

Lmao that’s what the Canadian government says too because they haven’t figured out a way to tax firewood yet

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project_apex t1_is0j1b1 wrote

It is if you replant the trees you use...

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JaegerDread t1_is0jb0i wrote

Yes, again, in THEORY it is. But in practice it's just a bureaucratic way to say you are being green on paper. It's about as green as driving a diesel from the 90's but the color is green.

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project_apex t1_is0jfzy wrote

No, it's not just in theory. If you get wood from a production forest that you planted and also upkeep then it's renewable. It doesn't add any co2 to the air.

Burning diesel fuel would actually increase co2 in the air.

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JaegerDread t1_is0jn27 wrote

Yes, but that doesn't happen. It's just deforestation. Fuck biomass. Solar, wind, geothermal and wave energy are all muuuuuch much better.

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project_apex t1_is0jr7v wrote

Got any sources for that claim? Because in EU this is pretty tightly regulated.

Sure solar and wind are better alternative but they have their own drawbacks that biofuels don't have.

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tyytus t1_is1b9eg wrote

Earth needs all the old growth forests it can get, which are massive carbon sinks. Wood plantations are replacing them in this scheme; cut-burn-grow60yrs-cut-burn

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one_jo t1_iry1pt7 wrote

It is, but only if you don’t harvest more than you can regrow.

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JaegerDread t1_irz4ofy wrote

Chopping trees to stop climare change seems like a stupid idea

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