Kudos to you for reevaluating! Not many are willing to do that.
For example, all those people working in the power plant. They're about to be "disrupted" because they have not been willing to evaluate new technology honestly.
They're actually riding this "green energy" wave, since they are technically a renewable resource - wood chips and sawmill wastes (sawdust, bark, etc), even though it's a steam boiler/turbine essentially on the same design as a coal plant.
Last time I talked to someone still working there, they were making enough per-megawatt on green energy credits that they can run full-bore even if the hourly price for electricity production is negative and make a profit. Not to mention that in the past year, there have been a handful of paper mill closings in the area, so the logging contractors have been scrambling to find anybody that will take their pulpwood production, at any price, and the state government has been mulling legislation to add further subsidies to make sure they take all the wood they can, to keep everyone else in the logging, trucking and other subsidiary industries open.
Oh interesting, I haven't heard of green energy credits for energy from wood mass before. On the face of it, it would seem that burning plant matter is definitely better than pulling old plant matter out of the ground and burning it. However the top google hit I found for it is more skeptical:
The mill I'm talking about actually burns straight wood products - mostly whole tree chips. Aside from a small amount of diesel used to get the fire in the boiler going when they startup, and a few additives like urea to tweak the emissions, it's all wood.
Black Liquor is interesting. Just down the road from my old plant, there is an International Paper mill that has been relying on that loophole for years to keep themselves afloat. All the mill's internal machinery is either steam-driven or runs on the electricity produced by their on-site plant. Lately they've been over-producing power and selling it back on the grid due to these credits, to the point that they have kept paper machines running at paper prices that would otherwise be unsustainable, just to keep a steady supply of black liquor for their power plant.
For example, all those people working in the power plant. They're about to be "disrupted" because they have not been willing to evaluate new technology honestly.