The sell on wood pellets is that the pellets are generated from industrial by-products. While that is true, it is also true that some percent is sourced directl

The sell on wood pellets is that the pellets are generated from industrial by-products. While that is true, it is also true that some percent is sourced directly from forests (which may or no also be byproduct from forestry activity). I'm not able to find a source to understand the big picture, but my impression is that pellets aren't all from waste. Another selling point for wood pellets is that they are sustainable. That may be true as long as the total use is lower than the growth rate. But sustainable isn't low-carbon. The energy source is still the recombining of carbon and oxygen that some plant broke apart earlier. At best this is carbon neutral atmospherically, at worst it is greenwashing. If you think that none of your personal wood pellets are sourced from the US, then welcome to a globalized commodity market where your purchasing power comes in part by some neighbor of neighbors purchasing from somewhere other than Poland. Do the math on your pellet use. How many acres of trees are needed to sustain your energy operation? If you think that they all come from waste, then multiply that number by 10 to account for the volume used industrially. If Poland is 312,683 square kilometres, and 100,000 are forest, then how much of that can be sustainably harvested? https://e360.yale.edu/features/wood_pellets_green_energy_or_new_source_of_co2_emissions https://e360.yale.edu/features/wood_pellets_green_energy_or_...