Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%
Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 electricity mix, with solar contributing 14%
Biomass may well be renewable, but I still don't think it counts as green.
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.
I just feel that if you're growing a load of trees, it's slightly more environmentally friendly to just let them carry on growing rather than chopping them into bits and burning them.
I mean I get it, it's a way to use those old coal power stations for something, but it should be something else we need to phase out.
