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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoWhy not? Doesn’t creating the biomass require sequestering carbon?
minus-squarekjetil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoDifference is timescale. Coal “sequestered carbon” over millions of years, and released over a few decades. Biomass gathers and realeases on the same timescale
minus-squarePhilippe23@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoThen you’re saying biomass is not really sequestering carbon, essentially.
minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoNeither is solar or wind. But they’re all net-zero or near-zero carbon emissions when considering the entire lifestyle of the energy and machinery production.
Why not? Doesn’t creating the biomass require sequestering carbon?
Coal is sequestered carbon.
Difference is timescale. Coal “sequestered carbon” over millions of years, and released over a few decades.
Biomass gathers and realeases on the same timescale
Then you’re saying biomass is not really sequestering carbon, essentially.
Neither is solar or wind. But they’re all net-zero or near-zero carbon emissions when considering the entire lifestyle of the energy and machinery production.