In Finland mayor biogass plant projects are put on hold because of a simple calculation: how many miles can a lumber truck drive to a plant and stil give the plant the oportunity to make a positive Co2 output result. Not very many miles as you can imagine….
In Holland the calculator apparently works different: we import wood from Austria, Italy and even from Australia (six!!! weeks in a ship to start with) to burn in electricity plants and still can sell the output as being ‘duurzaam’. One of the bigger energy distributors uses around 700.000 metric tons of wood a year to mingle with household and burnable industrial waist and there are four or five big players who do the same….
