On: Biolite: Wood-burning backpacking stove also provides USB power

[sitkack]

Right, putting that carbon back into the atmosphere instead on the forest floor where it started is carbon neutral. Just because it is "part o the carbon cycle" doesn't make it neutral.

[KC8ZKF → sitkack]

Yes it does. Learn and read about photosynthesis. Plants get carbon from the atmosphere.

[Turing_Machine → sitkack]

The forest floor decomposes and releases just as much CO2 as burning it would.

[sitkack → Turing_Machine]

This is a ridiculous statement.

[JoeAltmaier → sitkack]

Actually it was a correct statement. Decomposition is a sort of 'slow burn'.