Biomass is Dirtier than Coal
To suggest we burn biomass is a terrible idea.
First, there is no known technology capable of filtering ultra-fine particulate matter from any source's emissions. These particles are so very tiny, a few millionths of an inch, that they penetrate deeply into our lung tissues. Ultra-fine particles are found in all emissions and consist of a myriad of toxic chemical compounds and heavy metals. Still smaller nano-scale particles (billionths of a meter in size) can pass directly through our skin and pass easily through our Brain-Blood and Placental barriers.
Investors should be made aware of a US Energy Information Administration Nov. 2010 report, that finds Biomass energy production to be the second-most expensive of all electricity generation technologies, even more expensive than a two-unit nuclear power plant.
Waste Incineration is the costliest of all.
All biomass energy production is ultimately unsustainable and investment in all thermal biomass technologies, whether they burn garbage or forests, should be most strongly discouraged.
While Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel, its extraction and transport make it dirtier than burning coal.
We need to stop subsidizing such dirty energy producing technologies and invest in truly green technologies, like Solar, Wind, Geothermal and Micro-hydro.
The commentator who wrote "The way I see it myself, it's the environment movement which has no real science behind it, and all they have is an agenda, which is to hand over more power to government over our daily lives. That is where the radical agenda exists," reveals their profound bias and ignorance. Environmentalists always use peer-reviewed science to make their case.
Every baby born today is born with their tiny body already burdened with more than 200 chemicals that did not exist 200 years ago. Every woman of child-bearing age has enough mercury in her body to cause fetal damage.
What's never figured into any energy producing technology's cost is the tremendous cost to society for caring for those made ill by industrial pollutants, whether for health care or in lost time on the job.
FIT is certainly worth entertaining.
