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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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2. The Drax plant is certainly not the only case of 3 card monty approaches to being...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 10:11 AM

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..."green" nor is it even high on the list of the widespread abuse of the word, abuse now so common as to render the term "green" meaningless.

It does stand as representative as the abuse characterizing these claims, up there with things like hydrogen and sequestration and so on.

We aren't going to save the world by combusting biomass.

I'll spare everyone the rest of my usual rants.

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