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answer:The honest answer is ‘no’. But it depends who’s doing the talking. The coal lobby says they capture the CO2 and sequester it (Stick it someplace else). They ignore all the energy spent to dig it out of the ground, all the fuel it took for the truck to deliver it to the power plants and all the energy it takes to pump the CO2 someplace else. The concept is simple: If you take something out of the ground that has been there for millions of years and burn it, you are going to add CO2 to the environment. If you burn something that has been growing on the surface you have a chance of having a net CO2 of zero. There are a couple of small biofuel powered plants in Georgia that are very close to net zero. My wood burning stove is close to net zero. If I allow my oil heat to kick on I am increasing GHGs.

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