Biofuel from wood chips
December 5th, 2008 by James
Japan’s Forestry Agency will be pumping money into mountain areas of Japan by setting up a plan to turn wood chips into biofuel:
A center the agency is setting up in fiscal 2009 will introduce forestry cooperatives, lumber mills and other entities making biofuels to potential users of the CO2-free energy source, such as farmers, small businesses and schools.
The center will then help biofuel users sell CO2 emissions credits they earned through its use to utilities, steelmakers and other major companies engaging in business activities involving greenhouse gas emissions.
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Excuse my ignorance, since when is burning wood CO2 free?! This article sounds like a marketing guy going off on something mundane like clear cutting those sakura trees and spinning it into helping the environment and earning tons of money and saving the world to boot.
Isn’t there an editor within 100 km with a science degree?
From the article.
So for the sake a finite CO2 free fuel source, people would cause further destruction to the forest ecosystems that have been doing their job by filtering CO2 for millions of years.