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are you sure? as I understand it, trees are farmed for wood and the waste (twigs, bark, and bits that are not able to be used in construction) are burned.
by adgjlsfhk1 5y ago
are you sure? as I understand it, trees are farmed for wood and the waste (twigs, bark, and bits that are not able to be used in construction) are burned.
- tialaramex 5y agoThis is how it's sold but the numbers don't work. Take Drax in the UK. Every year Drax buys 14 million tonnes of wood, dries it, and then burns it to produce electricity. This is "renewable" energy and they get subsidised. But wait, does the UK use so much wood that 14 million tonnes of it is waste like you're imagining ? No of course not. Drax imports whole forests of foreign wood, shipped in, to feed this process, these are labelled "waste" but they aren't any different than any other forests.