This “woody biomass” scheme is the same issue as biofuels, corn-ethanol, diesel from palm oil, etc. People, try to understand this simple little fact: A tonne of CO2 is a tonne of CO2, regardless of its source. If you burn it, the flame rejects your claim of source, and turns in into plain, old CO2. And with the lag-time of regrowth, it ends up in the oceans before it ever gets near a growing tree. Not to mention the CO2 and methane loss from disturbing the forest floor and all other living things in the biome. Did you know, “they” are developing a sorghum that makes better use of soil nitrogen so that it needs less fertilizers to make fibre for fuel-alcohol production? This is yet more biofuel garbage thinking. But cars and trucks pay more for their food than humans do, so fine, let’s all grow food for the machines to eat, and tear down the remainder of this planet to do that, and let the “deplorables” starve. Business people never cared about biodiversity anyway, all life forms either have economic value or they are in the way. Either way, they get cut down.
Thank you very much for making this important point
This “woody biomass” scheme is the same issue as biofuels, corn-ethanol, diesel from palm oil, etc. People, try to understand this simple little fact: A tonne of CO2 is a tonne of CO2, regardless of its source. If you burn it, the flame rejects your claim of source, and turns in into plain, old CO2. And with the lag-time of regrowth, it ends up in the oceans before it ever gets near a growing tree. Not to mention the CO2 and methane loss from disturbing the forest floor and all other living things in the biome. Did you know, “they” are developing a sorghum that makes better use of soil nitrogen so that it needs less fertilizers to make fibre for fuel-alcohol production? This is yet more biofuel garbage thinking. But cars and trucks pay more for their food than humans do, so fine, let’s all grow food for the machines to eat, and tear down the remainder of this planet to do that, and let the “deplorables” starve. Business people never cared about biodiversity anyway, all life forms either have economic value or they are in the way. Either way, they get cut down.