Many nations have embraced burning wood pellets to produce electricity — under the assumption that it is carbon neutral. But research shows this approach can boost greenhouse-gas emissions and threaten the health of local communities.
Better to grow trees to build housing, that’s carbon capture as well and a well built house can keep the same wall studs for a very very long time… Hundreds of years even, more than enough time to grow back the trees required to build it a couple of times.
Yes, wood houses is carbon capture but a trivial amount.
Growing trees to burn them is basically the original solar energy. As with all forms of energy, there are various details about how it is conducted that determines how effective it is or not.
Headlines like “burning trees emits a lot carbon” are as much misinformation as headlines like “burning trees is carbon neutral”. Because the reality is that neither of those statements are correct or even genuine to the issue at hand, even if humans are just looking for a simple answer.
Better to grow trees to build housing, that’s carbon capture as well and a well built house can keep the same wall studs for a very very long time… Hundreds of years even, more than enough time to grow back the trees required to build it a couple of times.
Yes, wood houses is carbon capture but a trivial amount.
Growing trees to burn them is basically the original solar energy. As with all forms of energy, there are various details about how it is conducted that determines how effective it is or not.
Headlines like “burning trees emits a lot carbon” are as much misinformation as headlines like “burning trees is carbon neutral”. Because the reality is that neither of those statements are correct or even genuine to the issue at hand, even if humans are just looking for a simple answer.