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.

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