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Louisiana forests being sacrificed to fuel Europe's biomass boom
Posted on 1/16/14 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 1/16/14 at 12:05 pm
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BATON ROUGE, La. — The smell of freshly cut wood wafting from a dirt lot along an industrial stretch of road near the state capital might not conjure up an image of green energy, but some say this is the future of sustainability.
The smell comes from two white plastic domes rising high along the Mississippi River. Stored inside those domes are millions of wood pellets, which started as trees in the surrounding 50- to 75-mile area, and were converted to easily shippable and burnable material at mammoth factories where wood can stretch as far as the eye can see.
The white domes aren’t the pellets' final destination.
After being packed into containers the wood is shipped to Europe, where power companies will burn them in an effort to meet the European Union’s stringent renewable energy requirements.
This is known as biomass energy.
The problem is, not everyone thinks burning wood is green.
more story on link...
BATON ROUGE, La. — The smell of freshly cut wood wafting from a dirt lot along an industrial stretch of road near the state capital might not conjure up an image of green energy, but some say this is the future of sustainability.
The smell comes from two white plastic domes rising high along the Mississippi River. Stored inside those domes are millions of wood pellets, which started as trees in the surrounding 50- to 75-mile area, and were converted to easily shippable and burnable material at mammoth factories where wood can stretch as far as the eye can see.
The white domes aren’t the pellets' final destination.
After being packed into containers the wood is shipped to Europe, where power companies will burn them in an effort to meet the European Union’s stringent renewable energy requirements.
This is known as biomass energy.
The problem is, not everyone thinks burning wood is green.
more story on link...
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Posted on 1/16/14 at 12:10 pm to blackjackjackson
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Biomass advocates say the technology is good for the environment because it’s carbon-neutral — trees are cut down, and they grow back.
Posted on 1/16/14 at 12:47 pm to blackjackjackson
If the world put all the pork and sanctions that are used to prop up "renewable" energy technologies like this to use with actual scientists and physicists, we'd have fusion or an equivalent breakthrough.
Instead we throw a bunch of money at Luddite bullshite like burning trees for energy.
Instead we throw a bunch of money at Luddite bullshite like burning trees for energy.
This post was edited on 1/16/14 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 1/16/14 at 1:22 pm to blackjackjackson
It pisses me off that European countries and companies can come into Louisiana and steal our trees without even paying the land owners for those trees.
Oh, wait. That's not true, is it?
Dude, you're using Al Jazeera for your news source, for f*ck's sake!
Oh, wait. That's not true, is it?
Dude, you're using Al Jazeera for your news source, for f*ck's sake!
Posted on 1/16/14 at 2:38 pm to blackjackjackson
My headline would have been more like
"Europe's biomass boom creating Louisiana jobs".
"Europe's biomass boom creating Louisiana jobs".
Posted on 1/16/14 at 4:59 pm to blackjackjackson
quote:
The white domes aren’t the pellets' final destination. After being packed into containers the wood is shipped to Europe, where power companies will burn them
Uh, can I get a literary allusion to the Holocaust up in here??? Wood = Jews. Only on an Muslim source.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:50 pm to blackjackjackson
Loblolly pine grows almost as fast as weeds.
Posted on 1/19/14 at 9:10 am to blackjackjackson
I was also reading how Louisiana's oil and gas resources are being sacrificed to fuel greedy industrialists at home and abroad. And they are not even planting new oil.
This has gone too far. We need to take our economy back to the stone age and let the benevolent Muslims control the world economy.
Am I doing it right? And shouldn't this Al Jazeera nonsense be on the poliboard?
This has gone too far. We need to take our economy back to the stone age and let the benevolent Muslims control the world economy.
Am I doing it right? And shouldn't this Al Jazeera nonsense be on the poliboard?
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