<story><title>&apos;Energy independent&apos; Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months</title><url>https://theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/energy-independent-uruguay-runs-on-100-renewables-for-four-straight-months/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>Technically coal is also a closed loop of carbon because the CO2 once came from the atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to the problem: The CO2 shouldn&amp;#x27;t be in the atmosphere &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;: If you burn wood today and the CO2 gets removed again by new plants within the next 100 years, that&amp;#x27;s still a problem.</text></item><item><author>woodisgood</author><text>Is wood not a renewable resource? Closed loop of carbon.</text></item><item><author>dhoe</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have numbers, but huge parts of Montevideo must be relying on wood burning for heating. The effect is very noticeable in the air quality in winter (I&amp;#x27;ve lived there for three years recently).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fjni</author><text>I don’t understand why you’re being downvoted.&lt;p&gt;Your point is absolutely correct and as far as I can tell you pointed it out genuinely, not facetiously.
Edit: read other later posts here: didn’t know about the bacteria part. Learned something today!&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely not my area of expertise but intuitively there are two categories of energy sources: one which releases co2 (or other climate change impacting gases) and one which doesn’t. Wood, oil, gas, coal falls into the former. It’s just a question of time as you say until the loop closes. Solar, wind, thermal, etc would fall into the latter as far as I can tell.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Energy independent&apos; Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months</title><url>https://theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/energy-independent-uruguay-runs-on-100-renewables-for-four-straight-months/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>Technically coal is also a closed loop of carbon because the CO2 once came from the atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to the problem: The CO2 shouldn&amp;#x27;t be in the atmosphere &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;: If you burn wood today and the CO2 gets removed again by new plants within the next 100 years, that&amp;#x27;s still a problem.</text></item><item><author>woodisgood</author><text>Is wood not a renewable resource? Closed loop of carbon.</text></item><item><author>dhoe</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t have numbers, but huge parts of Montevideo must be relying on wood burning for heating. The effect is very noticeable in the air quality in winter (I&amp;#x27;ve lived there for three years recently).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajuc</author><text>Coal is not a renewable resource because bacteria and fungi evolved to decompose wood before it turns into coal. That&amp;#x27;s why almost all coal comes from (nomen omen) Carboniferous Period.</text></comment>