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Biomass Power

Biomass Power. Adele Freeman David Clem David Leonard. Uses of Biomass Energy. Heating Cooking Compost Material Electricity. Biomass. Waste wood, branches, & other scraps gathered by trucks Bring waste from farm to power plant Biomass dropped into huge hoppers

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Biomass Power

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  1. Biomass Power Adele Freeman David Clem David Leonard

  2. Uses of Biomass Energy • Heating • Cooking • Compost Material • Electricity

  3. Biomass

  4. Waste wood, branches, & other scraps gathered by trucks Bring waste from farm to power plant Biomass dropped into huge hoppers Fed into furnace and burned Heat used to boil water in boiler Creates steams, turning turbines How It Works

  5. Energy Sources • Wood is largest biomass energy source • Food crops • Grassy and woody plants • Residues from agriculture or forestry • Organic component of municipal and industrial wastes • Fumes from land fills (methane gas)

  6. Benefits of Biomass • Burning biomass releases CO2, but equals out amount of CO2 plant took in over its lifespan • Reduce dependence on foreign oil • Unlike other renewable energy sources, biomass can be converted directly into liquid fuels, called "biofuels"

  7. What would it replace? • Biomass energy would replace non-renewable energies such as natural gas, nuclear, coal and other mainstream energy sources.

  8. Where is it being used? • It is used throughout the United States • Biomass is currently the second most commonly used form of renewable energy in the U.S.

  9. Pros • Reduction of “new” greenhouse gas emissions • Less dependency on foreign oil with use of ethanol and biodiesel • Support the economy by increasing demand for suppliers of the biomass

  10. Cons • High costs installing the technology • High cost growing, harvesting and storing the raw materials • Burning the biomass creates liquid and gas wastes

  11. Challenges we would face… • The main problem that we would face in making this a mainstream form of energy would be cost. Installing the technologies that would be able to burn, recycle and refine the biomass would cost very much. It would involve a large risk to begin depending on this form, no one is sure if it could sustain large regions.

  12. Will it become mainstream? • Very significant chance of becoming mainstream. • People want more renewable energy to replace non-renewable energy. • More than 40 countries are expanding in biomass power generation.

  13. Specific Infrastructure Needed • Increase production of crops is vital to making biomass energy. • Biomass power plants to burn the crops and make the energy.

  14. Works Cited • "The Energy Story - Chapter 10: Biomass Energy." Energy Quest Room. 05 Feb. 2009 <http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter10.html>. • “NREL: Learning - Biomass Energy Basics." National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Home Page. 05 Feb. 2009 <http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_biomass.html>. • "Renewable Energy - Biomass including wood, MSW, and biofuels, carbon cycle, photosynthesis." Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government. 05 Feb. 2009 <http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/biomass.html>. • "EERE: Biomass Program Home Page." EERE. 05 Feb. 2009 <http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/>. • Miller, G. Tyler. Living in the Environment. Belmont: Brooks/Cole, 2001.

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