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Does Burning Wood Actually Fight Climate Change? Despite industry claims, scientists say using wood pellets is little better than fossil fuels.

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@fox2263@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

The problem is t people burning things occasionally. The problem is single companies burning the output of a hundred thousand people on a daily basis. And cruise ships. Tankers. Oil wells. Planes. Ships. Etc The commercial and industrial sector like to offload the burden to us to make us feel bad for leaving a light on and having a bonfire but maybe look at a coal power plant and the Las Vegas strip. Or the shipping and plane apps.

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@silence7@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net Open parent

Wood pellets are exactly that kind of large industrial operation, with the pellets mostly shipped to power plants

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Ah yes of course. I was thinking of home use pellets.

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