SilverNicktail t1_j2yz40g wrote on January 4, 2023 at 10:40 PM

Reply to comment by CharacterOtherwise77 in Renewable energy generation between July and September (2022) was up 55.3% on the same period in 2021, The Scottish Government has revealed. by Querch

It's a very small portion of the renewable makeup, less than 5% as opposed to the >75% that's wind power.

https://www.scottishrenewables.com/our-industry/statistics

The idea behind burning "garbage" is that it'll rot and emit methane, so it's an emitter either way. Burning methane is cleaner than letting it release naturally.

CharacterOtherwise77 t1_j2z22eb wrote on January 4, 2023 at 10:59 PM

5% of garbage being burned into the atmosphere is pretty awful, that's about 2.5 million tons of unvetted combustion going into the air annually. This should not be legal.

SilverNicktail t1_j2zjpye wrote on January 5, 2023 at 12:57 AM

Not 5% of garbage, 5% of electricity generation categorised as renewable. Did you not read the reasoning I posted as to why it's done? Let's say you get your way and that's made illegal - cool, now it rots, creates methane and emits *more*.

It's different to bringing methane out of the ground and burning that - this is methane that is naturally occurring at the surface and would be released anyway.