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Symbiote • yesterday at 11:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Farmed trees are often promoted as being a great fuel, but they do very, very little for enhancing biodiversity.

The UK's largest CO₂ emitter is an ex-coal now-biomass powerplant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station


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AnthonyMouse • yesterday at 11:37 PM

> Farmed trees are often promoted as being a great fuel, but they do very, very little for enhancing biodiversity.

Wind turbines and hydroelectric dams don't do much for enhancing biodiversity either, which is fine because their purpose is to generate electricity.

> The UK's largest CO₂ emitter is an ex-coal now-biomass powerplant

Only by counting burning biomass as emitting new CO2 while not counting the CO2 it removed from the air from being grown.

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