Comments on: MASHUP: Bioenergy picking up steam in Great Lakes region http://greatlakesecho.org/2011/06/02/mashup-bioenergy-picking-up-steam-in-great-lakes-region/ Wed, 22 May 2013 09:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: I heart wetlands http://greatlakesecho.org/2011/06/02/mashup-bioenergy-picking-up-steam-in-great-lakes-region/comment-page-1/#comment-12455 I heart wetlands Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:25:14 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=36934#comment-12455 Biofuels is an interesting option for the energy mix, but haven’t the advocates of burning biofuels heard of “global warming” and “greenhouse gases” – what do you think happens when you burn trees??? You can say “it’s better than burning oil” but I don’t see much more benefit to chopping down the trees that were working together to make the forest act as carbon sponges/reservoirs, and then releasing carbon in several forms (including CO2) into the atmosphere when it gets burned. Maybe we should consider finding ways to supply our energy that don’t release excess CO2 into the atmosphere!

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]]> By: Harold http://greatlakesecho.org/2011/06/02/mashup-bioenergy-picking-up-steam-in-great-lakes-region/comment-page-1/#comment-12436 Harold Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:57:42 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=36934#comment-12436 What a waste that our forests are being clear-cut to supply these wood burning plants. Is that why the Michigan DNR is now allowing so much clear-cutting of state forest land? Don’t they employ any biologists that know how destructive that practice is to forest dwelling birds and other creatures? It’s also downright ugly–at a time when our forests were FINALLY starting to recover from the lumberbaron days. Politics above principle, I guess.

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