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Actually, "black liquor" is usually burned, and some pulp mills are even energy-positive. The main problem is not energy, it's pollution (a huge source of contr
by GFischer 10y ago
Actually, "black liquor" is usually burned, and some pulp mills are even energy-positive. The main problem is not energy, it's pollution (a huge source of controversy here in Uruguay, we have several huge pulp mills).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_liquor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_liquor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPM_(company)#Uruguay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPM_(company)#Uruguay :
"provides CO2-neutral biomass-based electricity "
- douche 10y agoSome mills will even produce paper at a loss, in order to produce black liquor to make power from. Especially when there are "green" power subsidies involved. It's kind of insane, but there was a mill near where I grew up that was doing exactly this a few years ago.