I just heard on WCSH news this morning, that a study done in Mass. has determined that wood fired boiler plants are dirtier and more polluting than coal fired! I hope that doesn't cause the price of to go up!
Hope everyone is off to a good start on summer. I've a half dozen camping reservations spread out all over Maine,NH,and VT. I hope we have a good summer.
Charlie
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Don't fall into the trap of calling CO2 pollution, it's a greenhouse gas. From the article:
To be fair wood is considered carbon neutral at least if you're just considering the wood itself and you can sustain what you're burning with new growth. If you have a tract of land that could supply enough wood indefinitely because of new growth you have a natural carbon capture system. You have a cycle where you are burning and creating CO2 but the new growth is also capturing that CO2.A new study has found that wood-burning power plants using trees and other "biomass" from New England forests releases more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than coal over time