The new CO2 emitter is that may effect the biomass equation is… disturbed dirt. Continue reading
Category Archives: Biomass
Feds: Global warming to ‘at least double’ areas burned by wildfires in 25 years
Biomass rentseekers get caught in the squeeze. Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, Climate Change
Viv Forbes: UK gov’t wins inaugural ‘Gorebalism Award for Goofy Green Policies That Have Inconvenient Outcomes’
By Viv Forbes
December 27, 2012
Green politicians need to learn Newton’s Law of Government Regulations: – “Whenever government legislates to force an economic outcome, the long term effect will be equal and opposite to that intended.” Continue reading
Posted in Biomass
B.C. port authority approves terminal for wood pellet exports
A B.C. company’s plan to make wood pellets the fuel of choice for more customers in Europe and Asia has been given a boost by regulatory approval for a $42-million terminal project in Prince Rupert. Continue reading
Solving Energy Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
With its high poverty levels and low degree of industrialization, Africa arguably faces the largest development gap of any region. Beyond the usual misery indices and welfare evaluation metrics, we have fundamental challenges that impede meaningful sustainable development. Energy is an incontrovertible challenge across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Continue reading
Burning the Biosphere
When I was a kid, Mum did the washing in a copper of boiling water over an open fire in the back yard. We collected the wood from the back paddock with a horse and dray. It was all very “green” (but we thought it was just hard yakka). Greens want us to return to this primitive method for generating heat, and even electricity. Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, Environmentalism, Green hell
Tagged anti coal, anti development, climate hysteria, greenie obstructionists
Are man-made factors behind erratic monsoon?
India is heading for a drought, in meteorological terms, for the fourth time in the past 11 years. The previous droughts during this period were in 2002, 2004 and 2009. Continue reading
Counting the carbon cost of the EU’s woods
“What do olives stones shipped from the Mediterranean to Sweden and a wooden bed have in common? They can both count as part of EU efforts to limit the amount of carbon leaking into the atmosphere and, as such, they are hotly contested.“
Seriously stupid activities in the name of gorebull warbling. Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, Climate Change
Tagged carbon scam, climate hysteria, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, really stupid idea
German National Academy of Sciences issues a critical statement on the use of bioenergy
In a statement on the chances and limits of using bioenergy, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has come to the conclusion that in quantitative terms, bioenergy plays a minor role in the transition to renewable, sustainable energy sources in Germany at the present time and probably in the future. Continue reading
Andrés Cala: IEA Misses the Point on Renewables
The International Energy Agency (IEA) this month expectedly forecast more healthy growth for global renewable energy this decade. Continue reading
Deroy Murdock: High cost of fantasy fuel
Team Obama fines companies for not buying fuel that doesn’t exist Continue reading
Killer cookstoves: Indoor smoke deadly in poor countries; cleaner stoves elusive
For 80-year-old grandmother Espirita Lima Bautista, breathing while cooking over her kitchen hearth is like inhaling the second-hand soot of 400 cigarettes. Continue reading
Should we worry about winter chimney haze in rural towns?
Winter in many Australian country towns is accompanied by a pall of smoke from wood-fired heaters that lasts from late afternoon to the following morning. In larger towns and cities burning wood has been limited by laws to reduce the impact of smoke on respiratory health. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Biomass
Mimicking coal with crops could be a lifeline for Ore. power plant
The stupid things that dioxycarbophobia makes people do… Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Baseload Energy, Biomass, Coal
Tagged anti coal, carbon scam, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia
Standing trees better than burning ones for carbon neutrality
The search for alternatives to fossil fuels has prompted growing interest in the use of wood, harvested directly from forests, as a carbon-neutral energy source. Continue reading
Clean Energy Standard Bill Will Discourage Use Of Biomass For Renewable Energy
Ok, so it’s got one thing going for it Continue reading
Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forest champs
I didn’t even realize trees fought. Continue reading
New Bill Proposes To Extend Wind Energy PTC, Slash Oil Subsidies
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced new legislation that would extend a number of incentives for wind power and other forms of renewable energy while stripping subsidies for fossil fuels. Continue reading
Posted in Biomass, Clean energy, Economics
Tagged energy subsidies, geothermal, government subsidies, hydro power, solar power, wave and tidal power, Wind power
White House Promotes a Bioeconomy
They mean ‘grow stuff’ rather than ‘make stuff’? A nation of farmers rather than an industrial powerhouse? Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Biomass, Biotechnology
Good, Old-Fashioned Soot Traps Heat as It Fouls Air
Diesel engines and burning of biomass are responsible for the lion’s share of black carbon emissions in the United States, according to an EPA report to Congress on emissions of the carbon particulates. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Biomass, Climate Change
Tagged climate models, climate research
