What do you think "biomass" is?
Biomass is any organic material made from plants and animals that contains energy from the sun. It is renewable because it can be grown and re-grown on a continuous basis.
To release the energy, biomass can be burned, converted to gas or fermented for transportation fuel. Although some carbon and methane gases are released into the air when utilizing biomass energy, the growth of new biomass crops capture nearly equivalent amounts of these emissions, making biomass a carbon-neutral renewable energy.
The most common form of biomass is wood. People have used wood for heat and cooking for thousands of years.
forestenergy.com
You need to tell renewableenergyworld.com that wood isn't renewable:
renewableenergyworld.com
renewableenergyworld.com
More folks you need to educate, MM:
Wood Energy in America
Daniel deB. Richter Jr.,1* Dylan H. Jenkins,2 John T. Karakash,3 Josiah Knight,4 Lew R. McCreery,5 Kasimir P. Nemestothy6
Sustainable wood energy offers recurring economic, social, and environmental benefits.
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1University Program in Ecology, Southern Center for Sustainable Forests, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
2The Nature Conservancy, Pennsylvania Forest Conservation Program, Williamsport, PA 17701, USA.
3Resource Professionals Group, Durham, NC 27707, USA.
4Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
5State and Private Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA.
6Austrian Chamber of Agriculture, Department of Forestry and Energy, A-1014 Vienna, Austria.
sciencemag.org
Wood is a renewable source of energy because the carbon dioxide emitted when the wood is burned has been taken out of the atmosphere by the growing plant. Even allowing for emissions of fossil carbon dioxide in planting, harvesting, processing and transporting the fuel, replacing fossil fuel with wood fuel will typically reduce net CO2 emissions by over 90%.
This applies to all forms of wood fuel, including wood pellets, which are usually made of highly compressed waste sawdust. The use of wood pellets for heating is well established in countries such as North America, Sweden, Austria and Denmark. Work on the development of a UK market started in 1999 with the assistance of an EU funded project 'Introducing Wood Pellet Fuel to the UK'.
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nef.org.uk
Sustainable Energy, Wood Pellet, Boilers, Alternative Energy, Biomass
wood-pellet-ireland.blogspot.com
U.S. Wood Pellet Mill Receives FSC Certification
by Haley Paul
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Rainforest Alliance announced the first FSC certification of a wood biomass pellet mill in the U.S.
As part of the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program, Curran Renewable Energy, LLC will become the first certified producer and distributor of wood pellets.
earth911.com
altenergystocks.com
Barking up a new tree for renewable energy sourcesCarbon-neutral and cheap, wood pellets look like a good fuel bet - as some schools and businesses are already discovering
Buzz up!
Digg it
Kim Thomas
The Guardian, Thursday 1 March 2007
Article history
Alternative energy sources, such as solar power, tidal power and wind power, are often derided by critics as expensive, impractical or even (in the case of wind turbines) damaging to the environment. But there is another little-discussed alternative which can be used both as a fuel and to provide electricity.
It is widely available, easily renewable and carbon-neutral. And unlike wind and solar power, it provides energy on demand rather than intermittent energy dependent on the weather.
This revolutionary material is wood.
guardian.co.uk
Come on, MM, get busy and tell altenergystocks, sciencemang.org, earth911.com, renewableenergyworld.com, and the rest that wood isn't a renewable fuel. Demand they admit they're wrong. Seems the whole world is wrong. Set them straight, MM. |
