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Solid Solar EnergyTrees turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into carbon - wood - which we can burn to create energy, a truly renewable resource so long as:
• The wood comes from a sustainable source
• It is burned in a clean, efficient way
• It is used close to where it was felled
As it burns wood produces carbon dioxide - one of the main greenhouse gases responsible for climate change. But this CO2 will be absorbed by a new tree planted to replace the one being burnt.
This means that no extra carbon is put into the atmosphere - which is why wood fuel is 'carbon neutral'.
Although planting, harvesting and transport does use fossil fuels, wood for heating reduces carbon emissions by 90 per cent- 95 per cent compared to fossil-fuelled heating.
Wood has the same effect in electricity generation:
| Power Source | Carbon dioxide -gCO2/kWh | ||
| Coal steam turbine | 950 | ||
| Combined Cycle Gas Turbine | 450 | ||
| Wind turbine | 10 | ||
| Photovoltaics | 80 - 160 | ||
| Biomass steam turbine | 20 - 80 |
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