To be fair, it is highly politically undesirable thanks to previous environmentalism campaigns, but in a lot of ways burning biomass such as trees is a relatively desirable method of getting fuel compared to a lot of the more technologically advanced ways. You have to be very careful about balancing getting the biomass with replacing the biomass or else you don't using everything up, but on the other hand you don't need anything fancy to get energy out of biomass -- you just start a fire and you've got energy.
On the other hand, it definitely leads to some greenwashing. Kraft paper companies that were always going to burn bark and black liquor end up able to call those acts "green" under this definition. Most people who have taken a deep breath next to a paper mill are not going to call burning black liquor particularly environmentally friendly.
Relevant to the uk, the small island ended up with some serious problems because there is a limited amount of energy you can get from biomass and then still have new biomass to burn in the next year. During parts of the feudal period, there just weren't that many trees anywhere to burn anymore except in legally protected Lord's forests. That lack of biomass to burn ended up being one of the reasons that people ended up moving to the less desirable coal. I think that that's an important lesson that we need to keep in mind whenever we're talking about Green energy, the fact that you can't keep your home with doing the right thing. You need to actually produce energy.
On the other hand, it definitely leads to some greenwashing. Kraft paper companies that were always going to burn bark and black liquor end up able to call those acts "green" under this definition. Most people who have taken a deep breath next to a paper mill are not going to call burning black liquor particularly environmentally friendly.
Relevant to the uk, the small island ended up with some serious problems because there is a limited amount of energy you can get from biomass and then still have new biomass to burn in the next year. During parts of the feudal period, there just weren't that many trees anywhere to burn anymore except in legally protected Lord's forests. That lack of biomass to burn ended up being one of the reasons that people ended up moving to the less desirable coal. I think that that's an important lesson that we need to keep in mind whenever we're talking about Green energy, the fact that you can't keep your home with doing the right thing. You need to actually produce energy.
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