Discover the Advantages of Biomass, Generating Carbon Neutral Electricity
A review of alternative energy approaches will show the significant
advantages of biomass, and a key characteristic is that combustion does
not add to carbon cycle in the unsustainable way that fossil fuels do.
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As
a material drawn from a broad range of organic sources, biomass fits
the renewable energy category and can be deployed for generating power.
Among the sources available are tree roots, branches, wood chips and
shavings together with various agricultural wastes like crop residues,
manure and silage. A biomass reactor can also be fuelled by specially
grown grasses like miscanthus, switch grass and hemp or from trees like
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One
of the obvious advantages of biomass is reducing the need to burn
fossil fuels to produce heat, steam and electricity in industrial,
residential and farming settings. Biomass is also useful in that it has
a relatively high availability with the option for continuous
replanting and so by definition is renewable, when the carbon released
by burning is drawn back during plant photosynthesis, hence the carbon
neutrality of this energy source.
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of the original source crops is increased when the wastes from such
crops, like straw and husks, are used as a by-product for producing the
biomass fuel. A carbon sink is set up to sequester the carbon dioxide
created when burning fuel, and when replanting follows oxygen will also
be released into the atmosphere.
With the ever increasing
pressure on landfill sites to absorb municipal waste streams, the use
of this source as biomass will see a gradual tailing off of waste
heading to these sites, where significant releases of methane, a
greenhouse gas over twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide,
occurs.
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in such a way that they have less adverse environmental impact than
when these sources are used in combustion. Effectively through a
process of anaerobic digestion, waste is turned into gases which can
then be used to drive turbines, instead of process where biomass is
burnt and then sufficient trees need to be planted as a carbon sink to
recover the carbon dioxide released.
Ethanol sourced from
biomass can be used in a range of new biofuel blends, with the extra
benefit of being cleaner burning than the mainstream fossil fuels, as
well as the improved efficiency of combustion efficiency in road
vehicles. It's clear that biomass derived fuels can be employed to
generate heat and electricity as well as an alternative fuel to
petroleum distillates.
Clearly, governments at all levels need
to tackle both climate change and energy security concerns when they
permit new renewable energy plants. They also need to take into account
the need to ensure a sufficient level of steady baseload supply and not
merely extra sources which meet peak demands. The sun doesn't always
shine, sometimes there is no wind and tides have slack water, periods
when no power is generated, whereas the advantages of biomass sources
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