The new trendy fuel being proposed to replace the EPA/Hansen vilified coal is wood and/or biomass.
One biomass power plant “will emit 1,732 tons per day of carbon dioxide to produce 380,000 MWh of power annually, an emission rate of 3,327 lbs of CO2/MWh. For comparison carbon dioxide emission rates are 2,117 lbs/MWh for existing coal plants, 1,314 lbs/MWh for existing gas plants
and 760 lbs/MWh for new power plants.”
Lets put that in a table.
| Fuel | lbs of CO2/Megawatt Hour |
| Biomass | 3,327 |
| Coal | 2,117 |
| Older Natural Gas | 1,314 |
| New Natural Gas | 760 |
“wood fueled biomass power plants emit about 50% more CO2 per MWh than existing coal plants, 150% more than existing natural gas plants and 330% more than new gas power plants.”
Thats right. Biomass/Wood produce 330% more CO2 than a new super-efficient natural gas power plant burning natural gas. And thanks to fracking the gas is super-cheap.
If you believe in the “CO2 will end the world scam”, then please fight hard against wood and biomass power plants. And fight hard for new natural gas power plants.
If you don’t believe, then laugh at the idiots who do. And tell them the truth.
If you are against fracking, and for biomass/wood power planets, you hate the planet.
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Reblogged this on Energy science.
I loved the smell of biomass in the morning…in the 1970s when burning of slash, (trimmings from logging) added to the sawdust biomass burned in sawmill beehive burners, (partly for power) would hang over the Vancouver area in the fall. Campaigns partly funded and organized from California shut down most of our coastal logging. California then designated “Big Hydro” from Canada an unclean export with a 30% usage cap. They then sued British Columbia for $3 billion when their power shortfalls pushed the market price of BC power up.