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endominus
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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-f...
Even if that were the case, wouldn't it still be an essentially net-zero pollution system (disregarding small contributions from transport etc.)?
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Depends on the input into growing the biomass. If you are using industrial fertilizers, it's very far from net-zero. Besides that, from my memory there are studies analyzing this and I think they found it's never net-zero.
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In the British case… it’s being chipped and shipped from Canada and there’s doubts it’s waste wood
It makes more sense to leave trees in the ground than burning them to generate energy
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