Wednesday, December 23, 2009

BIO-MASS

Biomass is a renewable energy source derived from living or recently living organisms such as wood, waste, and alcohol fuels. Biomass is commonly plant matter that grown to generate electricity. Nowadays, it has become most widely used by the people. The term 'biomass' can also be refer to a great many different kinds of fuel, including wood chippings, garden waste, corn and a number of other materials that are recently living. If fuels like oil and gas run out, alternatives such as biomass are becoming much more popular. Biomass may also include biodegradable wastes that can used to burnt as fuel. Especially in some countries biomass offers help to reduce reliance on fossil fuels which are causing pollution.


Human waste cannot be used as a food crops but it can be used for fuel crops. This fuel is considered to be a renewable fuel which usage can still add to global warming. This occurs by cutting down trees .When biomass is utilized as a fuel for fossil fuel replacement, it will puts the same level of carbon-di-oxide back into the atmosphere of the world.


The carbon found in biomass material, that makes up about fifty percent of this dry matter content, forms part of the atmospheric carbon cycle already. This Biomass fuel takes on CO2 from the planet's atmosphere during its lifetime of growing, after which its carbon changes back to the atmosphere as a combination of methane and carbon-di-oxide depending on the final fate of the biomass. Methane is converted to carbon-di-oxide in the atmosphere above which completes the cycle.


Biomass appears to promise an ideal alternative to the polluting use of fossil fuels. While it does contribute to global warming, it is arguably a far more preferable choice. If it can be extended to many other parts of our daily lives, then it will be a powerful weapon against the increase of global warming - helping us save our planet.

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