Drax biomass plant emits four times the carbon of coal station
https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/drax-biomass-plant-emits-four-times-the-carbon-of-coal-station–report-3642351
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Drax biomass plant emits four times the carbon of coal station
https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/drax-biomass-plant-emits-four-times-the-carbon-of-coal-station–report-3642351
Posted by Mountain_Mentions
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There’s no links to any science anywhere in this article.
There’s a world of difference between releasing the carbon captured recently in a tree which was already in our atmosphere than there is releasing the carbon that was stored underground for tens of millions of years and had effectively been removed from the atmosphere.
One adds more carbon to our carbon cycle and the other doesn’t.
Not read the article (why break with convention?) but isn’t the point of biomass that it was CO2 that was recently taking out of the atmosphere by plants or whatever, being put back in?
Whereas coal is CO2 that was taken out the atmosphere millions of years ago, being put back in..
And that’s why coal is bad.
Although I guess if the claim is true, does it not make sense to bury the biomass and just burn the coal?