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Minnesota state regulators rule that burning trash and wood can be considered 'carbon-free' (www.mprnews.org)
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A similar decision in the UK resulted in clear-cutting old growth forests to feed biomass-burning power plants, with all the associated increase in atmosphere CO2

You also get all the same health consequences as burning coal. This is not a good move

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Technically global warming is burning carbon from underground (coal, oil, ng) so wood is carbon that's in its natural cycle but I still don't like it. Unless you do it right there's still too much PM. Trash depends on the source and since we have so much plastic it's not.>

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

A meaningful chunk is also from land use changes, where people decide to clear a forest, turning the trees into CO2. A decision to burn wood at scale like this has exactly that effect: you end up with a forest in various stages of regrowth, instead of a bunch of mature forest which is sequestering carbon.