> Renewable is a misnomer that goes back to the early environmentalist movement. In those days the concern was about running out of energy resources, not climat

> Renewable is a misnomer that goes back to the early environmentalist movement. In those days the concern was about running out of energy resources, not climate change. Today we’re drowning in energy, but have a surfeit of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. I'm sorry but your post reads like a non-sequitur on semantics, and I fail to see how it adds anything to the discussion. Biomass is renewable in any of the senses you discussed: in the sense of replenishing energy sources, and in the sense of not contributing to emissions as it's role in the carbon cycle is closed.