What’s a biomass power plant?
Thermal plant burning “renewable” carbonates.
Usually low quality wood and wood chips. Sometimes waste paper, sometimes plastics and even used tires.
Sometimes other garbage. They used to call it incinerator, but that is now bad world.
They tried doing the same crappola out here in Ca — the origin of most bad, stupid, contagious ideas in this country. It’s burnable trash. Hopefully what would otherwise go to the landfill. But, since recycling has finally been revealed as the scam it always was (i.e., from Day One it was simply shipping crappola to China — where it sat in a pile for the gulls and rats to feed on) the paper stuff is burned, too.
Unfortunately, that has to be hand sorted so nasty plastics and toxic metals (which are in everything) don’t go up the chimney, too. Hand sorting is labor intensive, which pushes the overall cost way past anything other than burning unicorn farts. A biomass plant is another virtue signaling wrong turn — I mentioned it came from CaCaLand, didn’t I?
This particular plant uses wood chips. Who doesn’t find that ironic? We can’t have brown paper shopping bags that biodegrade or compost but we can burn wood, heat the place up in the middle of summer and put smoke/pollution into the air.