So everybody is challenging pjc50 on this, let's put really numbers in: - In 2019 the total UK wood removals (harvesting) was 10.8 tonnes [0] of actual wood (f

So everybody is challenging pjc50 on this, let's put really numbers in: - In 2019 the total UK wood removals (harvesting) was 10.8 tonnes [0] of actual wood (for timber, furniture, pulp, etc.) - In 2019 Drax alone (1x single bio-mass plant) burned through 7,05 tonnes of bio-mass (labeled 'feedstock') of which about 81% was actually imported from the US and Canada. [1] So basically 1x single plant (arguably the largest) just burned through the equivalent of about 70% of the UK's harvested wood (assuming you would stop all wood construction and paper production etc.). As I wrote in another comment, we just do not have the land surface area for bio-mass in Europe and the number of bio-mass plants is now completely out of sync with the actual wood production capability partly due to a terrible energy policy and incentives. [0] https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/7721/Complete_FS2019.pdf https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/7721/Complete_FS... [1] https://www.drax.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Drax_AR2019_Web.pdf https://www.drax.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Drax_AR2019_...