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Because biomass will naturally released CO2 when decomposing Add that biomass usually releases CH4 (methane) which is a considered a much more potent greenhous
by huggyface 14y ago
Because biomass will naturally released CO2 when decomposing
Add that biomass usually releases CH4 (methane) which is a considered a much more potent greenhouse gas. Even simply burning the methane to CO2 -- ignoring energy recapture -- is an environmentally beneficial action, which is why landfills sometimes have flares.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoBut you have to grow that biomass first. After you did that, you can let is decompose (bad) or burn it (less bad), but you could just skip growing it entirely.
- nosse 14y agoAnd you would get..? Nothing? So instead of forest and some energy you get just nothing.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoForest? It's not forest, it's an endless plain of monoculture - no insects, no birds, no ecosystem.
- plehoux 14y agoEnergy can be extracted from forestry waste, thus creating more value from logging activities.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI don't think it is economically feasible.
- Retric 14y agoMethane does not last all long and 'quickly' degrades into CO2 which is vary stable. (2xO2 + CH4 => 2xH20 + C02)
- huggyface 14y agoTrue, though quickly is still a period of time that is detrimental to the planet. Well obviously it was self-balancing historically, but add the natural methane with the enormous CO2 of humanity and you have a problem. http://www.epa.gov/methane/ http://www.epa.gov/methane/