Biomass calculator report stirs debate

摘要

yed“biomass calculator”report did not immediately seem to have clarified the sustainability debate,as writers in the general media picked up on scenarios–deemed unre-alistic by the biomass industry–under which the fuel could be“less eco-friendly than coal”. A column in UK daily The Times,by Matt Ridley,a former science editor of The Economist and now a member of the House of Lords,was generally dismissive of renewables but singled out biomass for particular vitriol.The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s report,he wrote,“vindicated” his earlier criticism of subsidising the burning of biomass to generate power.