L23 Supplemental Reading

A few select papers for those that want to be more confused on this topic

• Tri-agency Response to Congress on Biomass Carbon Neutrality Download Tri-agency Response to Congress on Biomass Carbon Neutrality
   (EPA Nov. 2018)
• Review of Chatham House Report: Woody Biomass for Power and Heat - Impacts on the Global Climate Download Review of Chatham House Report: Woody Biomass for Power and Heat - Impacts on the Global Climate (DoveTail Partners, 2017)
• A comprehensive assessment of the energy performance of the full range of electricity generation technologies deployed in the United Kingdom. Download A comprehensive assessment of the energy performance of the full range of electricity generation technologies deployed in the United Kingdom.
  (Raugei and Leccisi, Energy Policy 2016)
• Biomass Fuel: Worse for Climate than Coal? Links to an external site. Just a popular press article, but covers many good points of the discussion.
• Wood Pellets: Green Energy or New Source of CO2 Emissions? Links to an external site. (Yale Environment 360, 2015)
• Does Replacing Coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Download Does Replacing Coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? (2018 J.D. Sterman ta al. Environmental Research Letters)
• If we burn wood for energy we can't have our cake and eat it. Links to an external site. (2013. Keaton, The Conversation.)
• Is wood a good source of energy? Links to an external site. (2017. Cornwall, Science Magazine)