https://www.newpower.info/2019/12/drax-sets-out-ambition-to-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://www.newpower.info/2019/12/drax-sets-out-ambition-to-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/#comment-71692 J.R. Spruill Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:48:43 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=7957#comment-71692 In addition to the carbon issues that M Meryick mentions, there are the issues of carbon created in the clear-cut logging, trucking the logs to the pellet mills, grinding the logs, dehydrating the chips, compressing the chips into pellets, climate controlling the pellet storage facilities at the mills, trucking the pellets to ports, climate controlling the pellet storage domes at the ports and loading the ships.

]]> https://www.newpower.info/2019/12/drax-sets-out-ambition-to-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/#comment-71691 J. R. Spruill Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:41:16 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=7957#comment-71691 Probably any corporation could report any carbon goals it wishes to forecast if it uses invalid accounting for its carbon emissions.

]]> https://www.newpower.info/2019/12/drax-sets-out-ambition-to-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/#comment-70705 Mark Meyrick Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:00:42 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=7957#comment-70705 Does this include the emissions associated with shipping the biomass from the USa, and the loss of that biomass’ carbon capture potential?

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