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Negative Emissions: The chronic complexity of carbon capture
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThere's something deeply ironic (and more than a little broken) about Drax pushing into CCS. The biomass mentioned in the article, that they burn in huge quantity travels a fair way to be burnt in the UK's largest emitter. Drax currently, with two of the six 660MW turbines still reserved for coal, burns more wood pellets in a year - 13m tonnes in 2016, when only 3 turbines were biomass - than the UK produces wood. Though they now want to convert the last two to gas, not biomass. So where does this "renewable" source of biomess (sic) come from? Why two thirds of it comes from Enviva, who clearcut mature US wetland natural forests - not from managed forestry. Drax's renewable claims are 99% empty greenwashing, and they remain part of the climate problem. Drax the Destroyer would be very fitting as their logo. https://theecologist.org/2017/apr/10/no-drax-theres-nothing-sustainable-about-big-biomass https://theecologist.org/2017/apr/10/no-drax-theres-nothing-...