Why is wood seen as a climate-neutral fuel, but coal and oil are not? All these fuels are based on composed organism that collected carbons over their lifetimes, that are now used as a fuel. The only difference is the cycle time.
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Trees can be replanted to collect the carbon back from the atmosphere, and burned again. The cycle is nearly carbon neutral.
Fossil fuels are obtained from carbon trapped millions of years ago, that cannot be collected again from the atmosphere without expending energy. The cycle is not neutral, since there’s no carbon being removed.
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