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Re:Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut e... by sp332 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:08AM (#40221729)
Drax is cutting down old-growth forests in Canada and shipping them to the UK to be burned for fuel. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-farce-of-burning-woo... This is compressing the release of hundreds of years of captured carbon into a lot less time, increasing atmospheric CO2 levels.
Re:Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut e... by blueflow on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @12:26PM (#40225474)
This "compression" also applies to fossil carbon, even if on a larger scale. So fossil carbon is still worse than biomass.