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		midasuni on Dec 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon e... It’s not clear if solar includes reduced demand from rooftop solar, or just grid connected solar Either way 5% is a tiny amount. biomass is also far better than gas for those times when you do need to boost supply, so increasing biomass still seems like a win.

ricardo81 on Dec 27, 2023 [–]

agreed. It can seem counter-intuitive with biomass since it's "burning trees", but generally it's a carbon neutral process or far closer to one than burning buried fossil fuels.

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