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@Mark It's a free country, but don't most of us read Paul's blog anyway ?
So no need to copyNpaste it here and then have discussion in 2 places
stewgreen
"European lawsuit threatens Drax power plant"
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/european-lawsuit-threatens-drax-power-plant/#more-38305
"Plaintiffs from six countries filed a lawsuit last week with the European General Court in Luxembourg, which seeks to annul the forest biomass provisions of the EU’s 2018 Renewable Energy Directive (RED) II.
The case is designed to disqualify forest wood from contributing to the directive’s target that 32% of all energy consumption across the EU should be generated from renewable sources.
The plaintiffs challenge the directive’s criteria for assessing greenhouse gas emissions, which they say fails to count the CO2 coming out the smokestack when wood is burned.
They say that if this is taken into account, biomass plants emit more CO2 per megawatt hour than fossil-fuelled power plants, including coal.
And while equivalent CO2 can be sequestered by regrowth of woodland, replacing the trees that have been harvested can take over a century and will not happen if the land is converted to agricultural uses, according to the suit.
A background note says: “It (the directive) undermines its own purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and in fact will result in increased net CO2 emissions and degradation of forest carbon sinks.”
The note estimates that around half of renewable energy across the EU is generated from biomass-fired plants, like those converted from coal by Drax at its North Yorkshire station, a proportion which it says is expected to grow as a result of the directive.
The plaintiffs are composed of groups representing communities in virgin forest areas of the EU and the US who are concerned about the upsurge in demand for wood fuel as a result of the directive."
Got to say, I agree with the law suit.
Mark Hodgson
I would just remind those in Parliament, who say that we didn't know what we were voting for, etc, that THEY voted for the European Union Referendum Act 2015, and in doing so, THEY voted for the question on the ballot paper:
Section 1 of the Act:
(4)The question that is to appear on the ballot papers is—
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”
(5)The alternative answers to that question that are to appear on the ballot papers are—
“Remain a member of the European Union
Leave the European Union”.
Mark Hodgson
I'm not offended AK but you do have a tendency to treat us like a new species and maybe we are for you. Right wing voices have been almost entirely silenced. It doesn't stop people thinking though. Debate has been so stifled that most intelligent people say very little of importance. It's often left to the stupid to state the obvious, even as they are condemned for doing so. You have a tendency to take every statement as it's written, with no recognition that some words are frustration talking. Some are tongue in cheek. Others are just a grumpy day. You won't get a full and truly felt picture from comments on Unthreaded.
TinyCO2
This is very typical
Chris Hitchens hatchet piece on Pound reveals more about the author then the target.
Near the end he slips how truly important and dangerous CH Douglas ideas truly were ( the more bile produced the more truth hits hits the mark )
A one Arthur Griffith is mentioned near the end....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPk-0HlJpgg
The Dork of Cork
Zero hedge was a great site a decade~ ago ,not now.
Despite its original quality I suspect we have been played since the beginning .
I first became aware of it reading a FT article .
In passing the writer claimed it was horrid so I suspected it must be good.
I became hooked.
After a period of time I began to have doubts.
My conversion to social credit and distributionism sunk all remaining hope in the site.
Ditto for the leftist Naked Capitalism site.
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These are all operatives of the very same monopoly .
Their function is to divert generally well meaning people down various cul de sacs.
Because the monopoly can produce near infinite credit they can produce truly vast and complex propaganda.
In fairness to Zero it has not censored my now occasional comments .
Naked Capitalism was very different.
Once I began to stumble on a social credit understanding I was out the gap.
No messing with that girl Yves Smith
A suspect she has a typical New York usury heritage .
The Dork of Cork
Tiny. Take offence if you must, but none was intended. I thought you might be interested, but in your case I was clearly wrong. I'll not mention it again.
Supertroll
I have not changed that much this past year.
Most likely your perspective has changed in the light of the Brexit debacle.
Your cherished morals and beliefs are crashing against the reality of the financial oligarchy.
The Dork of Cork
AK, you really have to stop treating us like lab rats. It's irritating and not as subtle as you think it is, which is why every now and then you get a rollicking... or words that rhyme with that.
TinyCO2
Coastal erosion and the idea it's increasing
BBC Local was on about a Withernsea seaside mobile homepark
Currently it's eroding at 4m/ year and 7m in some parts
It's made up of quite high clay cliffs
From the pics it seemed like a straight coastline was eroding into a cove shape which explains the 4m and 7m being different
It's a natural process which has happened for millenia and the earth ending up further down the coast at Skegness.
I guess that there is some particular sea dynamic going on, that sea waves are building up a from hundred miles offshore and forming an energy focus at that spot.
And if there was an easy way of stopping it some one would have already done it
I would have thought it unlikely that CC is making erosion happen quicker
but rather its confirmation bias as you are just pointing at at a particular zone eroding fast now, but in a decades time it will be somewhere else that is eroding faster
as erosion rates probably are not linear but vary over decades.