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Awesome! Keep em coming!

This is not a negative comment but "Renewable Energy" includes burning trees and garbage for electricity.

From the article:

>>“Renewable energy projects like wind and solar farms, hydropower and tidal energy are contributing more and more to Scotland’s economy as well cutting energy costs for consumers and helping meet our net-zero target. As we develop more projects, on and offshore, those contributions will only increase.”

Dumping for wright offs.

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.

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.

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.

This is the beginning of the revolution. Areas not investing in renewables will fall behind quickly.