Another green energy hoax

[Manonthestreet]

We must chop the forest down to save the planet............why does every green energy solution end up in the ridiculous and hypocritical zone?

Hardwood forests cut down to feed Drax Power plant, Channel 4 Dispatches claims

A Dispatches investigation has uncovered evidence of hardwood forests being chopped down to provide 'green energy' for the UK. Experts say unique habitats rich in wildlife are under threat as Britain’s power stations switch from burning coal to wood, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE

theecologist.org

 

[Moonglow]

When did burning wood for electricity become a green energy operation?

 

[Manonthestreet]

When did burning wood for electricity become a green energy operation?

Ask the greenies

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

When did burning wood for electricity become a green energy operation?

When the greens discovered you can't run a high tech economy
with only windmills and solar panels.

 

[The Irish Ram]

When did burning wood for electricity become a green energy operation?

No coal. And as pretty as it sounds, green energy is lacking. There are more homes than there are windmills and solar panels. And now they will have no trees to clean their air. That's called irony.
We have all become the Albert Einsteins of stupid...

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Yep! A trillion or more to develop green energy sources when investing that same amount in nuclear power will provide hundreds of times more energy is very progressive.

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[Crepitus]

We must chop the forest down to save the planet............why does every green energy solution end up in the ridiculous and hypocritical zone?

Hardwood forests cut down to feed Drax Power plant, Channel 4 Dispatches claims

A Dispatches investigation has uncovered evidence of hardwood forests being chopped down to provide 'green energy' for the UK. Experts say unique habitats rich in wildlife are under threat as Britain’s power stations switch from burning coal to wood, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE

theecologist.org

What moron told you burning wood was green?

 

[MisterBeale]

We must chop the forest down to save the planet............why does every green energy solution end up in the ridiculous and hypocritical zone?

Hardwood forests cut down to feed Drax Power plant, Channel 4 Dispatches claims

A Dispatches investigation has uncovered evidence of hardwood forests being chopped down to provide 'green energy' for the UK. Experts say unique habitats rich in wildlife are under threat as Britain’s power stations switch from burning coal to wood, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE

theecologist.org

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What moron told you burning wood was green?

The EU.

A boom in biomass helps the UK meet its renewable energy goals​

“We’ve converted three of our six generators to run on wood pellets,” says Andy Koss, Drax Power’s CEO, while standing in the shadow of four new cathedral-sized storage domes built to store those wood pellets on the sprawling Drax grounds.

Drax Power CEO Andy Coss at the Drax power plant in Yorkshire, England. The plant was built near local mines to burn coal, but it’s transitioning to wood pellets as the UK attempts to meet carbon emission targets.
Credit:
Carolyn Beeler/PRI
“This single site produces 15 percent of the UK’s renewable electricity,” Koss says.

Drax started transitioning its units off of coal and onto wood fuel because the UK government is putting tight restrictions on carbon emissions to help fight climate change. This year, the country announced its plan to cease burning coal for electricity entirely by 2025. And under EU law, biomass is classified as a source of carbon neutral energy.

The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US

Europe and the US say wood pellets are a carbon neutral alternative to coal. Many experts say otherwise.

www.pri.org

 

[Crepitus]

The EU.

A boom in biomass helps the UK meet its renewable energy goals​

“We’ve converted three of our six generators to run on wood pellets,” says Andy Koss, Drax Power’s CEO, while standing in the shadow of four new cathedral-sized storage domes built to store those wood pellets on the sprawling Drax grounds.

Drax Power CEO Andy Coss at the Drax power plant in Yorkshire, England. The plant was built near local mines to burn coal, but it’s transitioning to wood pellets as the UK attempts to meet carbon emission targets.
Credit:
Carolyn Beeler/PRI
“This single site produces 15 percent of the UK’s renewable electricity,” Koss says.

Drax started transitioning its units off of coal and onto wood fuel because the UK government is putting tight restrictions on carbon emissions to help fight climate change. This year, the country announced its plan to cease burning coal for electricity entirely by 2025. And under EU law, biomass is classified as a source of carbon neutral energy.

The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US

Europe and the US say wood pellets are a carbon neutral alternative to coal. Many experts say otherwise.

www.pri.org

That's incredibly stupid. Somebody head over there and smack that idiot.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

That's incredibly stupid. Somebody head over there and smack that idiot.

Greenies have stupid ideas all the time.

 

[Crepitus]

Greenies have stupid ideas all the time.

Not usually, no, but this one is pretty damn dumb.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Not usually, no, but this one is pretty damn dumb.

I love Germany shutting down their nuke plants, because of Fukushima.

 

[Crick]

Do I understand correctly that a few of you believe burning wood is NOT carbon neutral?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Do I understand correctly that a few of you believe burning wood is NOT carbon neutral?

If you're cutting it down in your backyard and burning it, it's carbon neutral.
If you're cutting it down and shipping it thousands of miles, because you think that
makes you green, you're a fucking moron.

 

[Crick]

If you're going to get on someone's case for making a buck without contributing to the problem, you need to turn in your RNC member card.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Wasting megabucks without contributing to the solution.

 

[Crick]

They aren't wasting any of yours so why do you care?

Besides, if you agree that burning wood is carbon neutral, using it for energy does have some benefit.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

They aren't wasting any of yours so why do you care?

Besides, if you agree that burning wood is carbon neutral, using it for energy does have some benefit.

They aren't wasting any of yours so why do you care?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Now these twats in Illinois want to shut down a perfectly good coal plant built in 2012.

Besides, if you agree that burning wood is carbon neutral, using it for energy does have some benefit.

Like I already said, it's carbon neutral if it's from your backyard.
Shipping it thousands of miles is stupid. (And releases CO2, shhhhh)
And how many billions of dollars do they waste subsidizing it?
Stupidity only a stupid green could love. But at least your stupidity makes you feel good.

 

[westwall]

We must chop the forest down to save the planet............why does every green energy solution end up in the ridiculous and hypocritical zone?

Hardwood forests cut down to feed Drax Power plant, Channel 4 Dispatches claims

A Dispatches investigation has uncovered evidence of hardwood forests being chopped down to provide 'green energy' for the UK. Experts say unique habitats rich in wildlife are under threat as Britain’s power stations switch from burning coal to wood, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE

theecologist.org

These assholes are truly despicable.