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Re:Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers ... by im3w1l on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:41AM (#31749496)
What chopping the trees down for fuel then? Burn them in a powerplant? Or turn into biogas or something?
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Re:Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers ... by bombcar on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:25AM (#31754403)
I suspect the energy density is low enough that the activity of moving them to a location for processing would be net-energy negative.

Also the idea of getting California to approve a wood-burning powerplant is amusing.

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