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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 1:40 pm to LSURussian
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you're using Al Jazeera for your news source, for f*ck's sake!
To think that they aren't reputable is ignorance on your part
Posted on 1/16/14 at 2:17 pm to GrammarKnotsi
quote:DON'T JUDGE ME!!!
To think that they aren't reputable is ignorance on your part
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 3:03 pm to eelsuee
quote:
My headline would have been more like
"Europe's biomass boom creating Louisiana jobs".
broken window.
Posted on 1/16/14 at 4:59 pm to blackjackjackson
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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 1:11 am to GrammarKnotsi
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trees are cut down, and they grow back
Sure they do. 30-40 years down the road. What happens in that time it takes to grow back? Our oxygen producing trees are gone. A little less clean air for us to breath. THATS WHAT! Why do y'all hate our children and clean oxygen so much?
Posted on 1/17/14 at 2:44 am to vodkacop
Posted on 1/17/14 at 6:31 am to C
I would add that the local/regional industries that are competing for these raw materials are fighting an uphill battle against the Euro govt subsidies. Think about it...cut trees down across the south, turn them into fuel pellets, then SHIP them to Europe. Freight cost alone makes this industry unsustainable without Euro govt subsidies.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 8:37 am to Cold Cous Cous
quote:Big difference, we are selling the windows with the Europeans suffering the loss. I am happy to profit off of their progressive policies.
broken window.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:24 pm to eelsuee
It's a result of the Kyoto treaty.
And if you are a landowner, it is a good thing.
And if you are a landowner, it is a good thing.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 12:50 pm to blackjackjackson
Loblolly pine grows almost as fast as weeds.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:44 am to cuyahoga tiger
You guys know that these pellets are most likely made from waste products that are left over from other uses correct?
Most sawmills sell their wood chips from the planking process to these companies who turn them to pellets in my area.
Most sawmills sell their wood chips from the planking process to these companies who turn them to pellets in my area.
Posted on 1/18/14 at 8:48 am to oR33Do
Don't be reasonable with them.
Posted on 1/19/14 at 1:27 am to donRANDOMnumbers
Well.. Its true though.
There is one local company that makes them from hardwoods and they buy wood chips by the truckload and another that makes them out of 5 year pine harvests.
Both end up in Europe...
There is one local company that makes them from hardwoods and they buy wood chips by the truckload and another that makes them out of 5 year pine harvests.
Both end up in Europe...
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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