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Jim East@slrpnk.net to Tree Huggers@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

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Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

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Jim East@slrpnk.net to Tree Huggers@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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Justin Catanoso is no stranger to wood pellet plants, as he lives near four of them in the U.S. state of North Carolina, where biomass giant Enviva has several facilities. While that company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this year, it remains the single largest producer of wood pellets globally. This firm is one of […]
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    Agreed.

    Coal is not renewable. Oil is not renewable. Trees grow back and are thus renewable.

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      All things are renewable on a long enough time scale but I’m not sure what you mean by coal is renewable. Not on a human timescale.

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        I believe you read that wrong

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          lol I could have sworn… maybe I’m losing it.

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