SellaTheChemistDec 29
I dream of the day when Drax is shut down at last. The madness of shipping wood from 1/3 of the way round the globe to burn it with an efficiency of about 30%. The number of cooling towers (12) tells you just how much energy is wasted. It is an astonishing monument to the Second Law.
Show threadPeter BrownDec 29
@sellathechemist and in the USA old growth forest is being destroyed to feed the monster
Show threadElizabeth SudduthDec 29

@peterbrown @sellathechemist The whole thing where it's somehow "sustainable" to cut down our trees, make them into pellets, and ship them to the other side of the world to burn is very strange.

https://dogwoodalliance.org/our-work/wood-pellet-biomass/

Show threadRichard 🔶UK #RejoinEUDec 29
@hydropsyche @peterbrown @sellathechemist good to know there’s a campaign in the USA to stop this monster and theft of our taxes. Drax made profits for their owners comparible to their subsidies from Government … you couldn’t make it up!
Show threadElizabeth Sudduth
@rpin42 @peterbrown @sellathechemist The Dogwood Alliance are great. I hadn't really been aware of this issue, since we don't really have many biomass burning plants in the US, and then I attended a regional climate change conference where they presented.
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