My favourite solar power article of the day

[AlbertaFarmer5]

In case you missed this from page 1.
Turns out Germany is too poor to afford coal power too. So poor they need to import wood from Africa to replace the coal:
https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/...er-plant-fuel/

And Britain:
https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16...patches-claims

And many others in Europe:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/1...ss-boondoggle/

[jazz]

New coal plant being built at Crowsnest Pass?

AB setting the stage to go it alone.

If china can build 100 of them, I am sure 1 here is going to be ok.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

That didn't work. Try this.

Turns out Germany is too poor to afford coal power too. So poor they need to import wood from Africa to replace the coal:
https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/environmental-****-of-africa-hamburg-power-plants-aim-to-deforest-namibia-for-power-plant-fuel/ https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/environmental-****-of-africa-hamburg-power-plants-aim-to-deforest-namibia-for-power-plant-fuel/

And Britain:
https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16/hardwood-forests-cut-down-feed-drax-power-plant-channel-4-dispatches-claims https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16/hardwood-forests-cut-down-feed-drax-power-plant-channel-4-dispatches-claims

And many others in Europe:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/14/the-great-biomass-boondoggle/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/14/the-great-biomass-boondoggle/

[furrowtickler]

In case you missed this from page 1.
Turns out Germany is too poor to afford coal power too. So poor they need to import wood from Africa to replace the coal:
https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/...er-plant-fuel/

And Britain:
https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16...patches-claims

And many others in Europe:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/1...ss-boondoggle/

But I thought they were all nearly self sufficient on solar and wind , no ??

[AlbertaFarmer5]

AB5 skimmed over the article quickly and I have to admit I am a bit confused, is biomass considered renewable energy? Are there less C02 emissions from burning wood than coal? I have to admit thinking back to when we had a old coal stove heating the shop, a lump of coal provided much more heat for a longer period of time than an equivalent amount of wood. So pelletizing wood in Canada and shipping by boat over to Japan to burn to create electricity seems just ridiculous!

I'm afraid that I can't suspend reality long enough to even try to explain the justification behind it. Hopefully Chuck can chime in. He explained it to me before, makes perfect sense to him. After all, if governments do something, or mandate something, it automatically must be viable according to his logic.

[furrowtickler]

Not to worry Trudeau promised to plant one billion trees ....
I wonder how that’s going btw ?

[TSIPP]

A billion trees a year is only 2.7 million trees a day that’s if you’re planting trees all winter also.

[Sodbuster]

I did my part, plants 40 trees, how are the rest of you doing.

[shtferbrains]

A billion trees a year is only 2.7 million trees a day that’s if you’re planting trees all winter also.

So if you spend 500 billion dollars in a couple of months is that more than that per day???

O who cares!

Never had the money in the first place.

The budget will balance itself !

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I did my part, plants 40 trees, how are the rest of you doing.

I cancelled your 40, and a few thousand more every year. But since trees don't release CO2 when burned*, it doesn't matter how many I pile and burn.

[Hamloc]

too add to the lunacy
a short ton of coal has 20 million BTU
a short ton of wood chips has 1 million BTU

What amazes me with a quick bit of googling it is easy to find articles pointing out how ridiculous this practice of converting coal burning electrical plants to wood pellets really is. It produces more C02 than coal, one of the reasons relates back to what caseih points out, wood pellets are less energy dense than coal. The environmental movement never ceases to amaze me and not in a good way.

[Guest]

I did my part, plants 40 trees, how are the rest of you doing.

i knocked about 5000 done in the last two weeks