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Just a remind... renewable energy and green energy are two very different things. Charcoal and wood are renewable energy sources but are not green energy sources.
@freemo I'd say this is a case where different people may use the terms slightly differently, and this example falls within the bounds of normal diversity of usages.
Since growing and burning wood keep the carbon cycle on the surface some would consider it to be green.
That's in contrast to something like burning and mining coal, which releases new carbon on the surface that had been previously removed from the cycle.
> I'd say this is a case where different people may use the terms slightly differently, and this example falls within the bounds of normal diversity of usages.
Id argue that the other uses of the word are incorrect
> Since growing and burning wood keep the carbon cycle on the surface some would consider it to be green.
Thats like saying gasoline is green because i captured an equal amount of co2 by growing trees for every gallon of gas I sold... no the gas still harms the environment, the fact that you put effort into fixing the environment that you then undid in equal perportion doesnt make the act of burning it green.
@freemo yes, you can argue that your own personal use of a word is the one true use of the word, but that's just not how language works :)
And yes, some DO say that gas is green when paired with an at least equal amount of CO2 capture. That is a way some people use the term. I think it's a bit less common usage, though.
But there is the huge difference that when you grow and burn wood you're directly engaging the carbon cycle without any external factors needed.
You capture carbon and just release the exact same carbon that you captured, without any accounting or trickery of assuming other carbon will be captured somewhere else.
