Scientists criticize legislation that defines wood-burning power plants as carbon neutral
MAR 07, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029635
Science : On 24 February, 65 scientists sent US Senate leaders a letter concerning a provision in an energy bill currently under consideration. The provision requires the federal government to treat the use of forest biomass for power production as carbon neutral, as long as the trees from the forests are replaced and the forests continue to grow trees. Philip Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, and the other letter cosigners say the calculation does not take into account the effects that tree removal, processing, consumption, and replanting have on the carbon balance.
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