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Exactly, burning biomass (there are huge corn fields in Poland that end up as biomass in Germany, economy of this is crazy and has zero positive effect on the e
by piokoch 5y ago
Exactly, burning biomass (there are huge corn fields in Poland that end up as biomass in Germany, economy of this is crazy and has zero positive effect on the environment).
The most ridiculous part is that Germany is questioning "greenes" of nuclear energy plants, because they invested in solar and wind power plants plus gas flowing from Russia through Nord Stream 2. I hope France will successfully oppose this madness.
How burning gas or trees is more CO2 emission friendly than nuclear power plant is beyond my understanding, but something tells me that environment is far from being a main point of this awkward exercise that Europe is doing now.
- Loic 5y ago"has zero positive effect on the environment" and a lot of negative effects: pesticides, fertilizers in water, monoculture bad for the animals, etc. Growing seasonal plants with sole purpose being biomass energy (burnt or whatever) should be banned. Using the leftover is something else, but the amounts are too small.
- jandrese 5y agoIf that biomass is offsetting coal/oil/gas then there is still a net positive of not adding more fossil carbon to the atmosphere. The first step in slowing down or stopping climate change is to stop releasing fossil carbon. Eventually we need to figure out how to sequester the excess carbon, but that's still sadly in the future. It's going to be hugely expensive but still less expensive than losing every coastal city to flooding. Unfortunately the latter is probably going to have to happen before we make progress on the former.
- ephbit 5y agoSequestering/fixing carbon can be done by constructing buildings from wood instead of concrete. Imagine wooden buildings with wall thicknesses of 30 cm or more.