Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?
Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?
Justin Catanoso is no stranger to wood pellet plants, as he lives near four of them in the U.S. state of North Carolina, where biomass giant Enviva has several facilities. While that company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this year, it remains the single largest producer of wood pellets globally. T...
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Green and renewable are not synonyms.
Biomass is renewable (in theory, but what company under capitalism is EVER going to replant more than they cut. Plus it wrecks biodiversity)
Nuclear is green but not renewable.
Nuclear is green but not renewable.
Is it tho? Can we really have green energy production under capitalism? How can we achieve sustainability within a plan that is based on eternal growth?
Well that's not a productive question. No shit nothing is going to be perfectly green under an exploitive system.
On the objective basis of evaluating the technologies, it's green. That was the only statement I was making and if we reduce every discussion down to "capitalism bad :[", something Lemmy generally is already VERY aware of, we get nowhere in any of these discussions.
Well that’s not a productive question.
You're right.