Back to the Future

[ny_quant]

European Union and Britain are not only incentivizing a return to the primitive concept of burning wood for energy on a massive scale, but they also claim doing so is carbon neutral (spoiler alert: it isn’t, not even close). Nearly 40% of Europe’s so-called renewable energy is currently obtained by combusting wood, and a sizable portion of what’s being burned is derived from clearcutting forests in the US. In a farce so perverted and obscene that it can only be the work of bloated and arrogant bureaucracies, a carbon accounting loophole is causing huge amounts of CO2 to be pumped into the atmosphere today that will take decades to abate using natural means.

Comments

[nlothik.livejournal.com]

А это как обычно. Каждый раз, когда некую проблему пытаются решить административно командным способом, получается именно вот так.

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Paywalled..

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

I don't have subscription so didn't read beyond that.

[aklepatc.livejournal.com]

[ahmash.livejournal.com]

Ещё чуть-чуть безгазья и экологов начнут жечь на кострах из органической древесины (-:
Игры в экологию, они от сытой и нудной жизни...

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

40% is a lot, I would like to see the analysis.

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

Суровые челябинские мужики про экологию не думают!

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

A controversial European Union policy called the Renewable Energy Directive drove this transition by counting biomass — organic material like wood, burned as fuel — as renewable energy and subsidizing its use. A trans-Atlantic industry developed, logging American forests and processing the material into pellets, which are then shipped to Europe. But critics have long argued that the subsidies actually have few climate benefits and should be scrapped.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/climate/eu-burning-wood-electricity.html

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is pretty shitty.

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

You don't say

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

By the same token, coal is also renewable — just wait another hundred million years.

[e2pii1.livejournal.com]

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/07/us/american-south-biomass-energy-invs/

How the American South is paying the price for Europe's 'green' energy.
In its Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the EU classified biomass as a renewable energy source.
Burning wood is less efficient than burning coal and releases far more carbon into the atmosphere, according to almost 800 scientists who wrote a 2018 letter to the European parliament.
In 1996, scientists at the United Nations devised a method to measure global carbon emissions. To simplify the process, they suggested emissions from burning biomass should be calculated where the trees are cut down, not where the wood pellets are burned.

[ny-quant.livejournal.com]

А ларчик просто открывался!