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by leonidasrup 46 days ago
How much of this biomass will be imported? Lot of the biomass used in Denmark, much smaller and less industrial country than Germany, to form baseload power generation is imported.

"The utmost amount (46%) of wood pellets comes from the Baltic countries (Latvia and Estonia) and 30% from the USA, Canada and Russia.6 Estonia and Latvia have steadily been the primary exporters of biomass to Denmark, mainly in the form of wood pellets and wood chips."

https://noah.dk/Biomass-consumption-in-Denmark

https://www.eubioenergy.com/2025/03/13/no-smoke-without-fire...

So Denmark replaced lot of imported fossil fuels with imported wood.

Could we scale this form of energy generation to energy requirements of China, India?

Germany plans massive expansion of imports of hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives.

https://usa-germany-cep.org/fileadmin/usa/Documents/1612_Ger...

https://www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/EN/Pre...