[DoingIsLearning]

If you do the maths there is not enough UK woodland area for the power they are producing.

I cannot find the source at the moment but at least in the UK they are basically importing wood chips from US, Canada, Malaysia, etc. just to keep the existing "bio mass" incinerators burning.

[growlist]

Yeah the biomass thing in the UK is an absolute joke - cynical greenwashing. So much of what I hear makes me question whether Oxbridge humanities graduates should be kept far, far away from any decision making involving science:

'James Woodley, an Environmental Biologist and resident of Northampton County, North Carolina, an area severely affected by wood pellet production for Drax’s biomass burning, said: ‘Now that the forests are gone, so is the sense of community. Dust is everywhere, even people are breathing in dust and becoming sick from it. When Enviva [a Drax pellet supplier] moved to our community, and to other poor communities in the Southeastern US, the company promised to bring hope to the hopeless, to reduce poverty, but what they ended up bringing was truckloads of logs, daily, constantly barrelling through.’'

https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2019/drax-protest-pr-2/

[pjc50]

Yeah, last time I did the numbers it would consume every tree in the UK in six months. It's both greenwashing and better than burning coal.

[DoingIsLearning]

My major issue against it is that these businesses are getting massive amounts of government funding and tax incentives due to the "green" spin.

Effectively none of these business are actually profitable and would be insolvent without government help/cronyism. This money is pretty much wasted on these polluting businesses and is money that could be applied elsewhere towards the environment.