Andrew George: Wood burning more harmful than coal
Published: August 23, 2013
Burning wood harmful
I read with great interest the Aug. 18 news article “Useless wood, converted into cash” about the growing wood pellet industry in North Carolina.
However, I reject the wood pellet manufacturer Enviva’s claim that burning trees emits less carbon than traditional coal. There is a growing literature of peer-reviewed scientific papers proving that burning wood in power plants is more harmful to the climate than burning fossil fuels. In fact, a thorough life-cycle analysis of pellet manufacturing shows this industry will contribute more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere per unit of energy than coal!
Wood-pellet interests want to intensify large-scale industrial clear-cutting of our remaining unpaved native forests to support an unsustainable energy policy, when conservation – of forests and energy – could actually work. Real alternatives to fossil fuels – such as conservation, solar and wind – deserve the real green title.
Why these more serious “conservationist claims” were neglected is troubling. The data do not lie.
Andrew George, Chapel Hill
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Wood burning more harmful than coal
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Wood burning more harmful than coal
by Wilberforce » Sat Aug 24, 2013 9:09 pm
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• If you smell even a subtle odor of smoke, you are being exposed to poisonous and carcinogenic chemical compounds!
• Even a brief exposure to smoke raises blood pressure, (no matter what your state of health) and can cause blood clotting, stroke, or heart attack in vulnerable people. Even children experience elevated blood pressure when exposed to smoke!
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