neutralità climatica

Last week the European Union launched a new plan linked to Green Deal, The Net-Zero Industry Act. The plan, under discussion for a year, marks Brussels' action strategy for the years to come in the fields of technology for the production of renewable energy and geoengineering linked to carbon capture and storage.The European law would be a response toInflation Reduction Act US, which, among other things, has attracted billions of dollars in investments for the development and production of so-called green technologies.With regard to carbon capture and storage technologies, the new European legislation poses serious problems regarding the subjects identified for the development of the technology that should clean the air of emissions, as well as opening the doors to a new business that in the coming decades will be able yield several billion dollars in profit.These subjects, in fact, are none other than others the large companies in the oil industry. The European Parliament and the...

A recent study published in the journal Renewable Energy demonstrated, for the first time, that U.S. woody biomass plants emit on average an amount of pollution almost 3 times higher to that released by traditional fossil fuel plants, such as oil and coal.According to the research, In particular, the combustion of wood pellets for energy purposes emits a wide range of air pollutants, including particulate matter and dioxins which are highly harmful to human health.Thousands of tons of toxic air pollutants, from nitrogen oxide to volatile organic compounds, would also be emitted in the pellet production process, especially in the southeastern USA.Overall, at least 55 pollutants exceeded the concentration threshold allowed by state air quality agencies by two times.The higher values ​​- the study then highlighted - have a negative impact mostly on poor and minority communities who typically live near pellet plants. In the United States, therefore, the combustion of forest bio...