Not a single commercially viable biorefinery exists for converting cellulosic biomass to fuel, according to the National Resource Council.
Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fed-backed Range Fuels sells plant for pennies on the dollar Chemical giant BASF invests in biomass-to-sugar startup Next-gen biofuels in 2012:
making electricity could be transformed by using various versions of compressed biomass. The problem is that a lot of that biomass is scattered at, rural locations.
One opportunity is new technology European firms are investing in called torrefaction. The plants European utilities are designing start at $10 million.
Each of these village enterprises that makes a biomass coal replacement might cost $10, 000 to $20,
A senior scientist at the Jet propulsion Lab, meanwhile--Sassan Saatchi--is relying on Lefsky's data to create forest biomass maps.
Each region has been blessed with the ability to grow its own biomass.""Still, consumers will need some way of getting that fuel into their vehicle.
They produced just as much total crop biomass. When the researchers calculated the value of their environmentally friendly harvest
The EU defines oerenewable to include wood (biomass) but excludes nuclear power. This upside-down perspective has led Germany (via subsidies) to spend more than $350 per ton CO2 avoided by mass harvesting of forests around the globe.
In its various forms, from sticks to pellets to sawdust, wood (or to use its fashionable name, biomass) accounts for about half of Europe renewable-energy consumption.
But if subsidising biomass energy were an efficient way to cut carbon emissions, perhaps this collateral damage might be written off as an unfortunate consequence of a policy that was beneficial overall.
the assumption oethat biomass combustion would be inherently carbon neutral is not correct as it ignores the fact that using land to produce plants for energy typically means that this land is not producing plants for other purposes,
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