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The Drax biomass plant in Yorkshire is the first in the world to pioneer carbon capture and some specialists see it as it has a bright future. But hold the rosy headlines.
Deriving fuel from trees costs more than wind and solar power and it emits more carbon than coal. There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.
A technology designed to reduce the effect of fossil fuels on the climate has received £1 bln in subsidies and has nothing to show for it.
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Co-Director Sussex Energy Group, Senior Lecturer, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Chair of Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Sheffield