A study published in the journal Nature Sustainability indicates that burning wood for power generation could be worse for the climate than burning natural gas, even with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Researchers from Princeton University, the UK, and China found that wood burning can release twice the carbon emissions per unit of energy produced compared to fossil gas. The study questions the effectiveness of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), which has been promoted as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. It suggests that achieving 'negative emissions' through BECCS could take up to 150 years, primarily due to the time required to regrow forests. The Drax power station in the UK, the largest single source of CO2 emissions in the country, received nearly £1 billion in subsidies last year for burning wood. Critics, including environmental groups, argue that such practices are detrimental to global carbon budgets and advocate for halting wood power generation altogether. The UK government has yet to finalize decisions on large-scale BECCS projects, maintaining that any support must meet sustainability criteria and provide value for taxpayers.