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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Burning wood is still better than burning coal either way, since the carbon in wood originally came from the atmosphere.
Kinda sorta. The conversion of forest land into commerical timberland on net moves carbon from the trees into the atmosphere. There's also a ton of fraud in that space around emissions claims.
And if that wood is something like a hybrid poplar, it's carbon within our lifespan (as opposed to old growth)