What is it?
Biomass is a renewable source of fuel because waste residue will never exhaust and properly managed forests will always have biological matter.
Its used by collecting, processing, and recycling items for fuel use, In addition to green energy facilities that create power from that waste. To produced solid biomass such as wood and garbage can be burned directly to produce heat. Biomass can also be converted into a gas called biogas or into liquid biofuels like ethanol & biodiesel. Biomass is mainly used in 3rd wheel countries for cooking and other household needs, in order to use biomass you need a source of waste. In more advanced countries biomass is used as electricity and heat. |
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What Now?
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Scientists have recently created a new catalyst that can convert cellulose, which is a common form of biomass into ethylene glycol which is an important product in chemical industry.
"Currently, biomass is mainly used in the form of starch, which is degraded to make sugars and then fermented to make ethanol. It would be cheaper to use cellulose, which is the main component of plant cell walls and thus the most plentiful organic compound on Earth. "
"Currently, biomass is mainly used in the form of starch, which is degraded to make sugars and then fermented to make ethanol. It would be cheaper to use cellulose, which is the main component of plant cell walls and thus the most plentiful organic compound on Earth. "
In my opinion important technological need in today's energy recourses, is the efficiency and environmental effect. Our world is already seeing the draw backs of poor energy usage through, global warming, pollution ,and climate change.
We need to be focusing on how to recover from this damage before its too late and cannot change our poor decisions at all. One thing that surprised me about biomass is that the vast majority of the source derives from waste, whether it be human or industrial. |