Your whole argument here is based on ignoring that CO2 from fossil fuel is what increases the overall levels of CO2 in the atmosphere along side a number of other harmful emissions that go hand in hand with burning fossil fuel.
As pointed out natural gas needs to be compressed, it needs to be moved on ships or pumped through pipes, these processes are no less energy consuming than moving biomass materials about. Same with coal same with oil. It’s a floored argument to claim it is more environmentally unfriendly to move biomass materials about than any other material.
The final part of your argument Is to make comments to whether or not the trees get replanted. Well to be honest it makes for a pretty poor business model to sell something that runs out when you have the means to replace it and sell more of it.
There is no doubting that if you burn gas coal or oil i you you are using and consuming something that you then can’t replenish. Whatever the arguments you want to make biomass production is “renewable”
I’m not saying biomass is the most environmentally friendly fuel In the world or claiming it’s not without its problems however burning a million tons of biomass that is responsibly farmed and managed is better for the environment than burning a million tons of coal which is why we are doing it, and why we are (for the time being) converting coal power stations to burn biomass.
The reason I initially replied to your need to explain biomass is because the nature of the arguments you’re making are biased and quite manipulative ignoring facts, ignoring processes involved in the cycles of CO2 and making unsubstantiated comments about whether or not trees that are cut down get replaced with your repeated comments of “I'm not going to get into if they are being re-planted properly”
If anyone wants to look up a more reliable source of information than Robert’s opinions then they can do this themselves a good place to start is here
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/envi...ceofrenewableenergyconsumedintheuk/2019-08-30
Just to reiterate the point once more, Biomass is not going to be better than solar or wind produced energy, but it is better than what it replaces which is coal, and it is to all intents and purposes a CO2 neutral way to produce energy as the trees grown and burned releases only CO2 that those same trees absorbed from the environment while they were alive. I’m ignoring all the arguments about how you move this stuff around because everything needs to be moved around or dug out of the ground.
