"The bloom is off the biomass
IS THERE any better symbol of energy independence than a Berkshire oak replacing oil from Saudi Arabia? Apparently, there is.
Even though burnt wood produces carbon dioxide, policy makers have long insisted that it should be considered a renewable alternative to fossil fuels because trees are carbon neutral — after some are cut down to burn, the new growth that replaces them absorbs CO2. On that ground, the state has sought to make “biomass’’ a priority for its energy future. But it’s now reconsidering, and probably with good reason.
A new study by a Massachusetts environmental think tank casts some doubt on the benefits of biomass. It spells out, in a variety of scenarios, just how long it would take for the regrowth to offset both the carbon emitted by a burned tree and the loss of that tree as a carbon absorber.
The payback time can be as short as five years if the wood-burning plant is simply used for heat and replaces an oil-fired facility. But if the wood is replacing an electric generator fueled by natural gas, the first global-warming dividends will not come for 90 years....
Of course, curbing global warming is just one reason to favor wood energy as an alternative to fossil fuels....
So they are not really against it; they are just pretending.
Harvesting trees runs no risk of offshore oil spills or coal-mining disasters.
Nothing like exploiting any crisis for agenda-pushing purposes.
The jobs in supplying and running wood-burning plants would all be local.
Is it worth the cost of your health?
Backers of wood-burning energy plants and the author of the study disagree on whether the state has enough wood from storm damage, landscaping, building-site clearing, mill waste, and construction debris to supply much of the fuel for wood facilities.
What, all that debris wood with CHEMICALS in it?
You are going to BURN THAT up into the AIR?
Wood from such sources has a much lower carbon profile, since it is no longer absorbing carbon dioxide and, if burned in a field or left to rot, would emit it anyway....
Yeah, you would be getting sick anyway!
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Related: Earth Day: Biomass Mess in MassachusettsThe Boston Globe is one every day.
FLASHBACK:
"Bay State rethinking wood power; Worse for climate than coal, study says" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | June 11, 2010
Burning wood to generate electricity can be worse for global warming than burning coal, according to a Massachusetts-sponsored study released yesterday. That surprising conclusion immediately prompted state officials to reconsider substantial financial incentives provided to wood-burning plants.
Yes, ANYTIME the AGENDA is SHOWN for the S*** it is the great propagators of the Boston Globe are always surprised. Ever notice it is happening to them more and more these days, as if there are too many lies to be covered and concealed?
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And they don't even say excuse me?
The six-month study by the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences in Plymouth comes amid controversy over the proposed construction of two large wood-burning power plants in Western Massachusetts....
The Manomet study shows that wood burning releases more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per unit of energy than oil, coal, or natural gas....
So ONCE AGAIN you have been led down the primrose path by politicians and papers, America -- and for WHAT?
So YOU can have YOUR TAX MONEY LOOTED to fund some DESTRUCTIVE INTEREST based on a LIE?
Matt Wolfe of Madera Energy Inc., which is proposing a wood-burning power plant in Greenfield, said the study incorrectly assumes whole trees would be cut to fuel the power plants.
Incorrect assumptions, huh? Smells like a newspaper to me.
And why would you want to locate a business in a town that will hate you, Matt?
Rather, he said, most wood for his plant would come from tree tops and branches left over from logging operations or from storm damage, land clearing for new development, or tree-trimming operations....
Right; however, that would NOT BE ANYWHERE NEAR ENOUGH FUEL to power what you are proposing, liar.
Besides, WE HAVE HEARD SO MANY PROMISES from STATE and INDUSTRY only to have been LIED TO and DECEIVED!
The Manomet Center analysis, however, concludes that there is only a small amount of such leftover wood, and that whole trees will have to be taken to fuel Massachusetts wood-burning power plants.
NOTHING WE DO NOT ALREADY KNOW!
The "curse" of an INFORMED CITIZENRY (on this issue, at least)!!!!!
The study indicates wood burning still may make sense in certain cases. For example, heating buildings with wood is more efficient than wood-burning power plants....
Translation: A WOOD STOVE or a FIREPLACE is FINE!
But I'm sure YOU will have to PAY some sort of CARBON TAX on that fire, folks.
Yeah, it is INDUSTRY and GOVERNMENT that are the ENVIRONMENTAL RAPISTS -- and here they are coming to $AVE YOU from the problem!!!!
Many, but not all, types of wood burning create a “carbon debt’’ that growing forests gradually repay by reabsorbing gases before a “carbon dividend’’ begins....
$ee how the AGENDA-PU$HING LINGO i$ already being DEPLOYED!!!!
See: Banks Will Save the World From Global Warming
Hey, they have done such a great job with everything they have touched so far.
But when two large wood-burning (also called biomass) plants were proposed a few years later, in Russell and the one in Greenfield, a large and vocal group of residents opposed them, asserting they would be fueled by cutting trees on public and private lands across Massachusetts....
I'm surprised the GLOBE MISSED the VOTE! They seem to devote so much print to politics. How could they miss this one?
"Greenfield voters say 'no' to effluent sale
GREENFIELD -- Thirty-five percent of the town's registered voters came out Tuesday to tell town officials they don't want Greenfield to sell its treated wastewater to a man who wants to build a 47-megawatt biomass wood-burning power plant on Butternut Street.
Yup, JUST AROUND the CORNER from me.
Three earlier Town Council votes that included selling treated wastewater to Matthew Wolfe of Madera Energy Inc., allowing the mayor to enter into a 20-year contract with Wolfe and leasing the power plant space in the town's wastewater treatment plant were each defeated by a 6-1 margin."
That's 86% AGAINST burning down our oxygen-giving trees for fuel, folks.
Darn near UNANIMOUS, isn't it?
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The Globe only report votes that go their agenda-pushing way?
The study counters earlier estimates showing there is plenty of wood available for wood-burning power plants in the state, saying there would not be enough sustainably harvested wood to fuel even one large wood-burning plant....
Translation: The self-serving s***s LIED!
Jana S. Chicoine, who has led the fight against the Russell plant, said she was pleased at the findings, calling the study a “policy earthquake. We always made the case this was not a NIMBY issue but a policy failure and now we have the state saying exactly the same thing,’’ she said.
Seeing as GOVERNMENT LIES are told ALL the TIME I barely notice the shaking these days. I would be surprised if it stopped.
John Hagan, president of the Manomet Center, said the report leaves policy makers with key questions.
“Do you want to wait 10, 20, 30 years just to get to the point [wood burning] is as good as coal? That is a real social question: Do we as a society want to make the climate worse before it gets better?’’
Through POLLUTION, not the fat-misters lie.
Related: Earth Day: King of the Forest in Massachusetts
Oh, so the $TATE is the WORST OFFENDER of the whole CLEAR-CUTTING LOT, huh?
Yeah, THEY will PROTECT the FORE$T$, right!
Earth Day: Taking a Chainsaw to the Environmental Movement
And there goes THEIR CREDIBILITY with the WHINE of the SAW!!!!
TIMBER!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, the agenda-pushing Globe is in FAVOR of biomess -- or was.
More mess:
"State suspends mandate for wider use of biofuels; Cost and complexity cited; suppliers upset" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | July 2, 2010
Massachusetts energy officials have suspended a requirement, scheduled to take effect yesterday, that oil retailers blend biofuel into the diesel and home heating oil they sell.
The decision, delivered Wednesday in a notice from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, sparked an outcry from biofuel makers, distributors, and sellers, who said their businesses will suffer without the state mandate....
Then they SHOULD NOT BE in BUSINESS in a FREE MARKET ECONOMY!!
Is there a clearer example of state agenda-pushing?
"Start-up that’s planning to convert fleet vehicles to hybrids gets $1.8m " by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | July 15, 2010
A Somerville start-up, founded by an MIT lecturer and two alumni, has raised $1.8 million to convert fleet vehicles that run on fossil fuels into electric hybrids.
Part of that financing comes from the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, a private venture group that awarded $300,000 this week to the company, XL Hybrids Inc....
Related: VenCap Vroom-Vroom
Now you know why your pensions never came back and the kid's tuition went up.
The fund gets much of its money from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a state-funded authority that was created to spur job growth and economic development in the clean-energy sector.
Then how come we have not had either?!
Is that where you wanted your tax dollars going when schools are being shut and teachers, cops, and firefighters laid off?
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I gave you all you needed, readers.
And it is almost time to say goodbye to the Boston Globe:
"Climate panel needs new management, report says; Recent errors prompt call for reform" by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | August 31, 2010
WASHINGTON — Last year, a batch of errors embarrassed the authors of the climate report.
Translation: they were exposed for the liars they are!
Among the most prominent were misleading statements about glaciers in the Himalayas.
We call them LIES here!
The Intergovernmental Panel incorrectly said they were melting faster than others and that they would disappear by 2035, hundreds of years earlier than other information suggests.
“Those errors did dent the credibility of the process, no question about it,’’ said former Princeton University president Harold Shapiro, who led the review of the Intergovernmental Panel.
How about SHATTERED IT because I NO LONGER believe a THING these LIARS SAY -- especially after the LAST TWO BRUTAL WINTERS and LAST YEAR'S MISSING SUMMER!
The InterAcademy Council said the climate change group overall has done a good job....
Yeah, of LYING to the WORLD!!
Climate-change science took a parade of public hits last winter, starting with the release of hacked e-mails from a British climate center. Then, on top of that, the winter seemed unusually cold in many places, undercutting belief in global warming.
Yeah, it just SEEMED THAT WAY!
And isn't SCIENCE NOT supposed to be BASED on FAITH?!!
The mood seems different now.
Yeah, the agenda-pushers have had nine months to try and scrub your brain of its memories.
Several outside reports — including those by the British, Dutch, and American governments — have upheld the chief scientific finding of the climate panel: that global warming is man-made and incontrovertible. This year is on target to be the hottest on record with a number of extreme weather events.
I am TIRED of AGENDA-PUSHING BULLSHIT!!!
Really TIRED OF IT!!!!!!!!!
Seeing as the Globe is going to start charging for articles I failed to log, this relationship is near its end.
Still, Shapiro said the way the report expressed confidence in scientific findings was incomplete and at times even misleading.
Lies.
In the panel’s first report, which addresses the physical causes of global warming, scientists may have underestimated how confident they were in their conclusions, Shapiro said.
Underestimated their overconfidence?
WTF kind of JOURNALISM is this?
In the second report, about effects on daily life, in at least one instance they may have overestimated the scientific backing for their conclusions, he suggested.
Translation: They LIED, LIED, LIED to YOU, world!!
Changing the promoter of the turd isn't going to lessen the stink, MSM!!
