The trick is only to burn what grows in the same time.
Planned forestry can provide a renewable source of material for construction, the waste material should provide the energy to process the wood products. As an energy source the return would be too small i.e enegy in against energy back out to make it a source of power.
As a use of land, bio fuels from plants that are quicker to harvest, would be a better investment.
they’ll just name it ‘sustainable forest burning’ and nobody will care.
There is so so much stupid here…
– *Renewable* is not the same as *zero emission*, and *zero emission* is not the same as *carbon neutral*.
– The fact that a special case of A isn’t X, doesn’t mean the rest of A isn’t. E.g. the fact that importing wood for burning from far far away isn’t carbon neutral, doesn’t mean that biomass never is.
– The time to an arbitrary deadline is of no consequences. Thst said, a line has to be drawn somewhere.
– “one paper” doesn’t mean anything by itself. That’s not how science works, and the sooner the media gets that, the sooner we can stop flipflopping on how good/bad red wine and chocolate is for you.
– Trees don’t only grow in forests, they also grow in plantations. Yes, monoculture and all that, not great, but it’s no different to other forms of farming.
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The trick is only to burn what grows in the same time.
Planned forestry can provide a renewable source of material for construction, the waste material should provide the energy to process the wood products. As an energy source the return would be too small i.e enegy in against energy back out to make it a source of power.
As a use of land, bio fuels from plants that are quicker to harvest, would be a better investment.
they’ll just name it ‘sustainable forest burning’ and nobody will care.
There is so so much stupid here…
– *Renewable* is not the same as *zero emission*, and *zero emission* is not the same as *carbon neutral*.
– The fact that a special case of A isn’t X, doesn’t mean the rest of A isn’t. E.g. the fact that importing wood for burning from far far away isn’t carbon neutral, doesn’t mean that biomass never is.
– The time to an arbitrary deadline is of no consequences. Thst said, a line has to be drawn somewhere.
– “one paper” doesn’t mean anything by itself. That’s not how science works, and the sooner the media gets that, the sooner we can stop flipflopping on how good/bad red wine and chocolate is for you.
– Trees don’t only grow in forests, they also grow in plantations. Yes, monoculture and all that, not great, but it’s no different to other forms of farming.
Why are opinion pieces even allowed?