The problem always was getting enough biomass to continuously feed these
beasts and whether its actually going to be dumping more or less carbon
into the air. it always has been debatable whether burning biomass is in
fact green at all!
Brian

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"UK's biggest power producer Drax is considering the conversion of its
remaining coal-fired power units to gas, instead of biomass power, as
originally planned"

"Management believe a gas-fired power conversion would allow the company
to qualify for 15-year contracts in the country's capacity market
auctions. As the government has already changed is stance on renewable
energy subsidies which had made biomass conversion attractive, this
would be a logical step for Drax"

http://www.powerengineeringint.com/a...mulls-coal-to-
gas-instead-of-biomass-conversion.html

This is the result of a lack of joined-up thinking in govt energy
policy, is it not?

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