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by DFHippie 2205 days ago
> By the time you're done with all that, the carbon footprint of your wood pellet plant is greater than that of a coal plant.

I would like to see a citation for this. It seems highly improbable.

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Seeing as coal is just as energy intensive to mine and transport, yeah... But I guess his point was that wood burning should be stopped along with coal, because it's nearly as bad.