Comment on Biomass power station produced four times emissions of UK coal plant, says report
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It’s not just the emission of carbon that is the cause of climate change. It’s the release of carbon that was sequestered as fossil fuels for millennia, causing an imbalance, which is the problem.
Biomass is essentially solar-powered, short term sequestering of carbon*. The process is only temporary though, because vegetation left alone will release its carbon back into the atmosphere when plant matter decomposes. However, it is renewable, so we might as well capture the stored energy.
- There are a lot of details to argue over. But one thing is for sure, burning fossil fuels is far worse than any other alternative.
nikaaa@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thank you for this reasonable analysis :-)
Indeed, what matters is the long-term perspective. And for that, only resources mined from underground make a lasting difference.