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    #31
    A real business man would build a natural gas generator to make some actual power and make some actual money. That is a better return on investment. Natural gas is always mentioned at the end of the green options. Solar isn’t there.

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      #32
      Originally posted by Hamloc View Post
      Chuck2 in most countries coal fired electrical generation was shut down by either government legislation or government taxation. As for using wood for heat I have many friends and relatives that use wood for heat, I guess a lot of the people I know are poor, wasn’t aware of that lol!
      Add Japan and S Korea to the list of too poor to afford coal, going back to burning wood. https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/pellets-in-japan-6630/ https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/pellets-in-japan-6630/

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        #33
        New coal plant being built at Crowsnest Pass?

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          #34
          Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View Post
          Add Japan and S Korea to the list of too poor to afford coal, going back to burning wood. https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/pellets-in-japan-6630/ https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/pellets-in-japan-6630/
          AB5 skimmed over the article quickly and I have to admit I am a bit confused, is biomass considered renewable energy? Are there less C02 emissions from burning wood than coal? I have to admit thinking back to when we had a old coal stove heating the shop, a lump of coal provided much more heat for a longer period of time than an equivalent amount of wood. So pelletizing wood in Canada and shipping by boat over to Japan to burn to create electricity seems just ridiculous!

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            #35
            Originally posted by Hamloc View Post
            AB5 skimmed over the article quickly and I have to admit I am a bit confused, is biomass considered renewable energy? Are there less C02 emissions from burning wood than coal? I have to admit thinking back to when we had a old coal stove heating the shop, a lump of coal provided much more heat for a longer period of time than an equivalent amount of wood. So pelletizing wood in Canada and shipping by boat over to Japan to burn to create electricity seems just ridiculous!
            ridiculous , yes
            green , absolutely not
            then one day , like the oversupply of wheat for the world , it will be " holy fu-k, where did all the trees go "
            its a double whammy , as trees get rid of barbie's "pollution"
            hey i know , why don't they cut the rain forest down and burn the wood
            yes folks , it has got that fu-ken ridiculous
            you cannot make this stupid shit up

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              #36
              too add to the lunacy
              a short ton of coal has 20 million BTU
              a short ton of wood chips has 1 million BTU

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                #37
                In case you missed this from page 1.
                Turns out Germany is too poor to afford coal power too. So poor they need to import wood from Africa to replace the coal:
                https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/...er-plant-fuel/

                And Britain:
                https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16...patches-claims

                And many others in Europe:
                https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/1...ss-boondoggle/

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by sumdumguy View Post
                  New coal plant being built at Crowsnest Pass?
                  AB setting the stage to go it alone.

                  If china can build 100 of them, I am sure 1 here is going to be ok.

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                    #39
                    That didn't work. Try this.
                    Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View Post
                    Turns out Germany is too poor to afford coal power too. So poor they need to import wood from Africa to replace the coal:
                    https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/environmental-****-of-africa-hamburg-power-plants-aim-to-deforest-namibia-for-power-plant-fuel/ https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/environmental-****-of-africa-hamburg-power-plants-aim-to-deforest-namibia-for-power-plant-fuel/

                    And Britain:
                    https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16/hardwood-forests-cut-down-feed-drax-power-plant-channel-4-dispatches-claims https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16/hardwood-forests-cut-down-feed-drax-power-plant-channel-4-dispatches-claims

                    And many others in Europe:
                    https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/14/the-great-biomass-boondoggle/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/14/the-great-biomass-boondoggle/

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View Post
                      In case you missed this from page 1.
                      Turns out Germany is too poor to afford coal power too. So poor they need to import wood from Africa to replace the coal:
                      https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/20/...er-plant-fuel/

                      And Britain:
                      https://theecologist.org/2018/apr/16...patches-claims

                      And many others in Europe:
                      https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/1...ss-boondoggle/
                      But I thought they were all nearly self sufficient on solar and wind , no ??

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                        #41
                        Originally posted by Hamloc View Post
                        AB5 skimmed over the article quickly and I have to admit I am a bit confused, is biomass considered renewable energy? Are there less C02 emissions from burning wood than coal? I have to admit thinking back to when we had a old coal stove heating the shop, a lump of coal provided much more heat for a longer period of time than an equivalent amount of wood. So pelletizing wood in Canada and shipping by boat over to Japan to burn to create electricity seems just ridiculous!
                        I'm afraid that I can't suspend reality long enough to even try to explain the justification behind it. Hopefully Chuck can chime in. He explained it to me before, makes perfect sense to him. After all, if governments do something, or mandate something, it automatically must be viable according to his logic.

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                          #42
                          Not to worry Trudeau promised to plant one billion trees ....
                          I wonder how that’s going btw ?

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                            #43
                            A billion trees a year is only 2.7 million trees a day that’s if you’re planting trees all winter also.

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                              #44
                              I did my part, plants 40 trees, how are the rest of you doing.

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                                #45
                                Originally posted by TSIPP View Post
                                A billion trees a year is only 2.7 million trees a day that’s if you’re planting trees all winter also.
                                So if you spend 500 billion dollars in a couple of months is that more than that per day???

                                O who cares!

                                Never had the money in the first place.

                                The budget will balance itself !

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