Biomass is carbon neutral, and the world is flat!

Locutus

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"Wind has less than 1/10th the energy density of wood, wood half the density of coal and coal half the density of octane."*
The largest coal generation plant in the UK is transforming itself by converting half of its coal burning generation units into biomass (wood pellets) by 2016.

By that time Drax Group PLC will have three of their six, 660 MW units, converted to biomass and will require 7 million tons of wood pellets annually for fuel. To put a context around the latter number, the information available through research on the Internet indicates it takes approximately 2 ½ tons of forest to produce one ton of wood pellets. One acre of mature forest contains approximately 4 tons of wood, meaning to produce 7 million tons would require about 4,375,000 acres or 6,800 square miles of forest. That amount is equal to clear cutting mature forests 10 times the size of Toronto each year.


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captain morgan

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How eco-friendly of them.

Wonder if Captain Suzuki will be donning his cape and mask and come charging in on his big diesel bus to save the day?

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