Why is nobody talking about “biomass” “green energy” which is a fancy way of saying “wood fired power plant”?
Now I’m not actually against burning waste lumber efficiently in a power plant, generally speaking. Only problem is when they burn treated lumber improperly and emit stuff other than CO/CO2.
But let’s be honest here. Even if it is renewable energy (grow more wood), how the heck is this reducing carbon emissions? Carbon bound up in wood is burned and released.
The fact that this is considered green energy, even though carbon is released into the atmosphere when it wasn’t there before, absolutely proves that this is not about keeping carbon out of the atmosphere to reduce global warming.
It’s obviously about artificially reducing petroleum demand because 1) emissions are ignored in the biomass case and 2) emissions only seem to matter when it’s petroleum.
If this were not about control of petroleum then it wouldn’t be artificially restricted to petroleum like this.
But in terms of power generation, I'm not sure anyone call really say nothing is being done to quell the concerns of humanities attribution to global warming. I see oil at almost nothing, coal on the outs, gas and renewable in the gain, and and nuclear seems to just be running on the same plants built 20+ years ago. Which is... Perhaps worrying, but still... Nice looking graph
It's not so much the natural gas emissions they don't like about Fracking. It's about what it does to the surrounding environment.
It's like how back in the day, when people were mining for coal, they would blow the tops of mountains and the slag and all the toxic bullshit would run into the creeks and water and poison it.
I'm not against Fracking, but it is pretty harsh on the environment. It's really toxic.
Any source of energy production is harsh on the environment, whether it's using a wood stove to heat your home or plugging a Tesla into a power plant that burns coal.
If anyone comes up with a plan that doesn't involve massive distribution of wealth and social justice, I'm all ears.
Carbon based fuel has lifted more people across the globe out of poverty than any other single factor in our human existence.
I'm a proponent of clean air, but when gasoline prices go through the roof, who's going to pay the price? The working stiff who can't afford a Tesla.
Nooooooo! It's a deadly gas that kills everything it touches!!!1!!1 Reeeeeeee!
The US is reducing it's carbon footprint through innovation and free markets.
Believe in man-made global warming or not, Capitalism is actually cleaning our air without a government mandate.
Don't green plants FUCKING NEED CO2?
One small volcanic eruption releases more co2 into the atmosphere than mankind will in hundreds of years.
Why is nobody talking about “biomass” “green energy” which is a fancy way of saying “wood fired power plant”?
Now I’m not actually against burning waste lumber efficiently in a power plant, generally speaking. Only problem is when they burn treated lumber improperly and emit stuff other than CO/CO2.
But let’s be honest here. Even if it is renewable energy (grow more wood), how the heck is this reducing carbon emissions? Carbon bound up in wood is burned and released.
The fact that this is considered green energy, even though carbon is released into the atmosphere when it wasn’t there before, absolutely proves that this is not about keeping carbon out of the atmosphere to reduce global warming.
It’s obviously about artificially reducing petroleum demand because 1) emissions are ignored in the biomass case and 2) emissions only seem to matter when it’s petroleum.
If this were not about control of petroleum then it wouldn’t be artificially restricted to petroleum like this.
^^^This.
Give it a fancy name like "biomass" and no one cares if you clear-cut forests and toss trees into furnaces.
Not sure why I expected a graph on co2 emissions.
But in terms of power generation, I'm not sure anyone call really say nothing is being done to quell the concerns of humanities attribution to global warming. I see oil at almost nothing, coal on the outs, gas and renewable in the gain, and and nuclear seems to just be running on the same plants built 20+ years ago. Which is... Perhaps worrying, but still... Nice looking graph
There's no greenhouse effect. It's a scam
I thought biden the piece of shit- cheating- child molestor said he wasn't going to ban fracking....wtf? Did he lie?
It's not so much the natural gas emissions they don't like about Fracking. It's about what it does to the surrounding environment.
It's like how back in the day, when people were mining for coal, they would blow the tops of mountains and the slag and all the toxic bullshit would run into the creeks and water and poison it.
I'm not against Fracking, but it is pretty harsh on the environment. It's really toxic.
Any source of energy production is harsh on the environment, whether it's using a wood stove to heat your home or plugging a Tesla into a power plant that burns coal.
If anyone comes up with a plan that doesn't involve massive distribution of wealth and social justice, I'm all ears.
Carbon based fuel has lifted more people across the globe out of poverty than any other single factor in our human existence.
I'm a proponent of clean air, but when gasoline prices go through the roof, who's going to pay the price? The working stiff who can't afford a Tesla.
Meanwhile, China is building new coal plants