Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
by acidburnNSA on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:13PM
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It's not meaningless. CO₂ in the atmosphere causes the greehouse effect, which allows the sun to heat the earth more. To avoid greenhouse effect you can't have things that require CO₂ to constantly remain in the atmosphere. You need non-carbon sources like wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, geothermal, etc.
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Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
by Someone on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:01PM
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> To avoid greenhouse effect you can't have things that require CO₂ to constantly remain in the atmosphere.
But we don’t want to fully avoid the greenhouse effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect:
“Earth's natural greenhouse effect keeps the planet from having the below freezing temperature that it would have if there were no greenhouse gases”
Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
by cma on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:04PM
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He's talking about the excess unnatural greenhouse effect.
Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
by Someone on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:43PM
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I don’t see how one can read that from “To avoid greenhouse effect you can't have things that require CO₂ to constantly remain in the atmosphere.”
The natural greenhouse effect has CO₂ constantly (I think at least since there’s any carbohydrate burning on earth) remaining in the atmosphere.
Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
by cma on Monday September 19, 2022 @02:24AM
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It's all implied. Maybe he doesn't know about some of those things, but it is incredibly common to talk about it in those terms without spelling out that you mean excess / problem-causing amounts of the effect, etc. When he says can't have things he's talking about human energy use. He says right after you need to use wind, solar, etc.