Biomass Fuel-Biogas-Biofuels-Biomass Energy
Biomass Fuel - A Green Alternative to Fossil Fuel
"biomass fuel" is a broad term that elaborates all leaves, roots, seeds, and stalks of all plants as well as animal waste. Anything that can burn and decompose can be a biomass fuel, or also called biofuel. But crude oil is not considered as biomass.
As wood used to build a campfire is biomass fuel. The idea of using biomass as fuel to create energy to run our homes and cars isn't new. It's been around for a long time, but until gasoline went to four bucks a gallon and utility bills went through the roof, nobody seemed so interested in developing this technology. But biomass fuel is a great idea whose time has come because all the other energy based products having lack of it due to excess use.
You may be heard about a grass that grows in Africa being used to create energy or about corn grown in America being used to create energy. You may also heard about methane gas that's a natural byproduct of landfills being captured and turned into usable energy.
If we use grass or corn today, next year there will be more grass or corn because we can produce them easily, but we can't produce fossil fuels.good thing about using these biofuels is that we can grow these in the backyard like what our ancestors have done before.
There is however an increasing revival of interests for using biomass. While it is true that burning organic materials for fuel also produces carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, it is not much. The amount of carbon being released is no more than the amount of carbon absorbed by the plant when it was growing. This is classed as carbon neutral energy source. So, as long as the plant is replaced, biomass is a renewable energy source.
Main sources of Biomass comprise a wide variety of materials such as aquatic plants, animal wastes, dead trees, unused crops, Mill and forest residues and municipal and agricultural wastes.
These materials are burned as fuel to produce energy, we get biomass energy. Other biomass materials such as ethanol, which is produced from corn and other leftover crops and biodiesel, which is produced from vegetable oils and animal fats can be used to create biomass energy that can even power transportation vehicles.
Because biomass energy only accounts for about three per cent of energy used yearly in the United States.The production cost does not match the production price of fossil fuels such as coal. This means the commercial production of Biomass is quite far-fetched at present. Hence there is an urgent need to cut down the production cost to make bio energy affordable. There should be an economic analysis of the commercialization of Biomass and concentration should be more on a wider commercial market.
This will help to lower the production cost of biomass. According to Haq Z. in his book "Biomass for Electricity Generation" (2004) "By 2020, the United States is estimated to have a maximum of 7.1 quadrillion Btu of biomass available at prices of $5 per million Btu or lower."
The society needs to be more open to the use of biomass as an energy resource. The trash that goes into our landfills can be readily used to produce Biomass. There will be no dependency on fossil fuels. This, in turn, will help the world economy and the whole environment as well.
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