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by jakehop 2021 days ago
Better how? Scientists and professors with decades of experience in this exact field, disagree[0].

Burning wood even discharges more CO2 in the atmosphere, than coal[1] and we haven't even started to talk about where all those trees must be grown to keep up with the demand of an energy policy based on solar/wind + biofuel backup, like we are planning in Denmark.

It is not a terribly good idea and it is infuriating how little science and facts matter to a political discusssion that one would think was based around those elements.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/pruitt-forests-bu... [1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa512/...