"Today, the biomass of humans and the biomass of livestock far surpass that of wild mammals," the study states.
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Along with Puneet Dwivedi, she was contracted by the Biomass Power Association to study the carbon intensity of biomass electricity.
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To allay concerns about the use of biomass for electricity, in 2014 the country announced that it would only purchase sustainable biomass.
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In severely affected areas, the biomass of earthworms underground is 500 times greater than the biomass of moose in the same areas.
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It is not surprising that power companies would rush to build more biomass generators if they were allowed to consider biomass carbon neutral.
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In 2017, the City of Galena started operating their own biomass facility, displacing 85033,000 gallons of fuel oil since their biomass operation went online.
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Biofuel engineers are working on converting kelp or seaweed biomass to fuel analogous to the way that, say, corn biomass is converted to ethanol.
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That's roughly 7 percent of the world's total biomass (the dry weight of living organisms), or more than 100 times the total biomass of humanity.
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But "our previous research into biomass availability suggests that, technically, there could be enough biomass to meet 100 percent of our aviation fuel demand," she said.
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Its 20183 percent smokeless biomass cookstove cooks food times faster and burns 70 times less of processed proprietary water-resistant Goodlife Biomass Pellets produced from forest and agricultural waste.
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Its 100 percent smokeless biomass cookstove cooks food faster and burns 70 times less fuel using processed proprietary water-resistant Goodlife Biomass Pellets produced from forest and agricultural waste.
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The EEA also noted an increase in CO2 emissions from biomass combustion by 308 million tonnes over the period, highlighting the need for biomass to be produced in a sustainable way.
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Wind, solar, hydropower ... biomass is also in the radar.
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More biomass means more fuel, and if less water is making it the forest floor and soil beneath, much of this biomass will also wind up drier and more prone to burning.
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Sinopec says it is exploring geothermal energy and biomass, too.
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The other 13 GW would come from biomass and hydropower.
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Something of a biomass revolution is taking place in Denmark.
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Biomass is inefficient and only environmentally friendly to a point.
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Biomass combustion has been a source of serious atmospheric pollution.
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When biomass is burned for energy, that carbon is released.
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From there the biomass goes through a process like extrusion.
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South Dakota also boasts significant undeveloped geothermal and biomass resources.
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" Yet the biomass industry and its boosters continue to perpetuate the myth that burning trees for electricity is somehow good for forests and the climate, all based on faulty claims of biomass "carbon neutrality.
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They would operate "for more than 200 days per year with sugarcane biomass and forestry biomass, basically marabu scrub," it said, referring to the dense, prickly brush that has overrun much of Cuba's arable land.
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At the same time the aviation industry anticipates fuelling its planes with bio-fuel, the shipping industry is seriously considering biomass to power its ships and the chemical sector sees biomass as a potential feedstock.
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As a result, the future of biomass energy is in limbo.
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Biomass energy is an important part of a clean energy future.
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Wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass electricity together accounted for 1.6 percent.
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A biomass industry group offered praise for the measure on Wednesday.
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For a graphic on Japan biomass power generation capacity click reut.
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Biomass ranked sixth among all respondents with an average of 295.
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"The earth's biomass is stable," Loewe tells us in an epilogue.
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Today the market for biomass wood pellets is a global one.
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And biomass provides a strong new incentive to continue that trend.
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Biomass projects require close coordination with local paper companies and foresters.
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Common renewable energy sources are solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and hydropower.
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"There is a lot of biomass within that mud," said Purser.
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Pigs' collective footprint in the world is also huge: there are 1.44 billion of them, and their collective biomass totals 175 billion kg, twice as much as the biomass of all wild terrestrial vertebrates, Impossible says.
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The global biomass of wild mammals has declined by 82% since prehistory.
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Insisting on 100 percent WWS — excluding nuclear, biomass, cogeneration, natural gas, etc.
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Earnings were hit by two outages at some of the biomass facilities.
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Biomass fuels are not going to deliver us a carbon-free future.
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The main tactic is massive, subsidized deployment of wind, solar and biomass.
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Eesti Energia also has other renewable energy projects, in wind and biomass.
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The issue of excessive biomass in a population is an important one.
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Biomass accounted for just $5 billion of investment pledges, down 46 percent.
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EPA committed to study and resolve its biomass policy by July 22019.
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We had solar power, we had hydropower, we had geothermal, and biomass.
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In terms of biomass, the insects greatly exceeded migratory birds in Britain.
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It does not create any biomass or contribute to long-term improvement.
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Wood biomass is a carbon neutral source of energy for two reasons.
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As of today, biomass remains a blip on the U.S. electricity grid.
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And he notes that biomass, while renewable, still produces CO2 when burned.
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Because EU climate policies allow wood-burning to be counted as "carbon free" and lack adequate biomass sourcing standards, wood pellet mills across the Southern U.S. are scrambling to export pellets to supply Europe's hungry biomass power market.
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In a setback to its biomass conversion plans, Drax said a unit at which it has been trialling to burn biomass only will be returning to running entirely on coal this winter as it will be producing more reliably.
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These schemes support everything from solar, wind and biomass to hydro and geothermal.
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Bioenergy is energy produced from "products derived from biomass," according to the IEA.
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Excluding traditional biomass (burning wood for heat and cooking), it was 10.2 percent.
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By 2100, we can expect a 24 percent increase in total forest biomass.
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Charcoal, the main biomass fuel used in Kenya, is not economical, or healthy.
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The European Union already treats biomass as carbon-friendly and subsidizes its production.
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Biomass plants generate energy by burning fuels, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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BOB CLEAVES Portland, Me. The writer is president of the Biomass Power Association.
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Maybe it's renewable energy, some nuclear power, some biomass, and some natural gas.
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Science recognizes biomass is a well-established way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
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Supporting biomass energy provides one more important strategy for fighting global climate change.
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" He explained: "The claim that biomass is carbon neutral is a true statement.
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Burning biomass for electricity releases more carbon dioxide at the smokestack than coal.
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Meanwhile, European taxpayers now prop up utilities converting coal plants to burn biomass.
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Some plants have been converted partially to burn biomass, such as wood pellets.
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We can also convert biomass into liquid fuels for transportation and industrial processes.
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I think the marine biomass on the site has increased by 200 percent.
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"If you're looking at five years, [biomass is] not very good ... If you're looking at a century-long time scale, which is the sort of time scale that many foresters plan, then [biomass] can be a lot more beneficial," says Slade.
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Humans make up just 0.01 percent of the biomass on Earth, but have managed to wipe out 83 percent of all wild mammals and cut the plant biomass in half during our time on this planet, according to the study.
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Glowee is a sustainable living light source powered by waste products and reusable biomass.
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SilverFire vendor specializing in off-grid stoves, "biomass grills" and solar cookers at PrepperCon.
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That can be hydro, wave, tidal, geothermal, gas from waste, renewable gas, or biomass.
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Octopus Investments invests in solar, wind, biogas, biomass, landfill gas, and reserve power assets.
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They saw over 40 percent increases in the amount of biomass the plants produced.
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"They advocate not having any more children and adding to the biomass," Stoddard said.
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"More than 90 percent of the microbial biomass [in soil] is inactive," he said.
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Analysts, meanwhile, warn that too big a rush to biomass could be self-defeating.
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The assumption that all biomass used for energy contributes to atmospheric carbon is wrong.
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DOE has a role to play in wind, biomass, and other "rural renewable" technologies.
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Biomass proponents say more forests would be planted if timber were considered carbon neutral.
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The Salton Sea Biomass Remediation Project harnesses algae's ability to grow in hostile conditions.
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He has been developing a portfolio of renewable energy projects involving solar and biomass.
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Scientists know that emissions from burning wood biomass are higher than those from coal.
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Attempts to legislate that all biomass is carbon neutral does not make it so.
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The study also noted a significant drop in river's fish biomass, or collective weight.
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Compare that with the 5 billion metric tons of agricultural biomass waste produced annually.
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She and Bole-Rentel said no biomass will be produced for being converted to fuel.
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And "the cost of the actual biomass material is also a big factor," he said.
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"We remove the excess biomass, or bioproduct waste, which is basically dead algae," she says.
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The government received some bids for hydroelectric and biomass projects but did not accept them.
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With millions of acres of forests, Alaska has become home to many successful biomass projects.
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From a biomass perspective, insects seem tiny in comparison—and therefore not worth much consideration.
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What's more, the researchers say, existing power plants could co-fire woody biomass with coal.
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The agency established the requirements for biomass-based diesel at 2.1 billion gallons for 2018.
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Sources such as gas, nuclear, wind, biomass and solar had been used instead, it said.
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A German study found a 75 percent decline in insect biomass between 1989 and 2017.
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A study commissioned by Massachusetts caused the state to abandon biomass subsidies for this cause.
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They comprise about 80 tons of biomass, packed with 35 million calories, the researchers estimate.
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But the worst of the current energy bill provisions is the "biomass carbon neutrality" amendment.
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"Palms have less dense biomass than hardwood trees, and they store less carbon," said Uriarte.
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Within its biomass, it holds about a decade's worth of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions.
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration classifies solar, wind, biomass, hydroelectric and geothermal energy as renewable.
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"The notion was that low-cost, improved biomass cookstoves get you air improvements," Jack said.
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"Thailand -- with a per capita income of US $5,816 -- uses biomass to meet 23% of household energy needs, while the United Republic of Tanzania -- with a per capita income of US $864 -- uses biomass to meet 95% of household energy needs," the report said.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The world's top cocoa producer Ivory Coast plans to build a 60 to 70 megawatt (MW) capacity biomass power generation plant running on waste from cocoa pods, part of its aim of developing 424 MW of biomass power generation capacity by 2030.
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In its blog post, the accelerator pointed to bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, which would require growing new biomass to convert into energy and then capturing the emissions created when that biomass is burned for power and burying it in the ground.
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Neoen also operates a 15 MW biomass facility but Barbaro says he does not see much growth in biomass, as its costs are not coming down as quickly as solar and wind, the plants are complex to operate and sourcing fuel requires active management.
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We might need carbon capture and sequestration, most likely attached to biomass and maybe natural gas.
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Renewable capacity, historically wind and biomass, will under the new auctioning system include photovoltaics and biogas.
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This basically proposes burning biomass for energy, and capturing the carbon emissions to be stored underground.
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Drax, for example, is developing a system to capture the carbon it produces from burning biomass.
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Higher ambient temperatures cause snow to melt earlier, leading to drier, more flammable biomass in forests.
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The biomass of fish is thought to have decreased by around 100m tonnes during humanity's tenure.
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That's going to mean more solar, more wind, more biomass, we manufacture a lot of that.
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The islands also hope to generate energy from burning biomass and hydroelectricity — such as from rivers.
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Another, biomass, is becoming increasingly important as we look to diversify the way energy is produced.
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Biomass-based diesel (D4) credits also jumped, trading up to $1.01 apiece, from 96.5 cents previously.
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Pension funds in Canada and Scandinavia are making healthy profits investing in wind, solar, and biomass.
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Yet despite our small biomass among animals, we've had an overwhelmingly huge impact on the planet.
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Biogas can also be produced from waste organic materials, including biomass from, for instance, forestry waste.
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Apple had originally planned to build two data centers in Denmark powered by wind and biomass.
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Carbon is captured by living organisms (and, increasingly, artificial ones) and converted into biomass or carbon.
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And fighting climate change with BECCS requires producers to be very picky about their biomass sources.
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One is a 600 megawatt (MW) coal-fired unit, and another a 150 MW biomass generator.
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Renewables edged ahead at 40%, including 20% from wind, 12% from biomass and 6% from solar.
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Denmark, a leader in wind power, has abundant supplies of wind energy as well biomass energy.
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Some of the accepted sources also attract their own controversy as "renewables," including hydroelectricity and biomass.
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The BPA represents 80 stand-alone biomass power plants across the country, including plants run by Weyerhaeuser's Plum Creek Timber, France-based utility EDF Renewable Energy, and Lockheed Martin, which through its Energy division, is involved in multiple, novel generation technologies, including biomass and ocean wave energy.
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"A lot more work is needed to convince me that the graphite is biomass," Dodd told Gizmodo.
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And some climate plans call for a massive ramp-up of "negative emissions" electricity involving cellulosic biomass.
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The EU is the world's biggest user of biomass for electricity generation, with its use growing quickly.
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When burning household waste or biomass, they also count as renewable energy as they limit CO2 emissions.
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In places where biomass isn't readily available, the WEDEW can be converted to run on solar power.
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That threatens their health and potentially means the release of substantial carbon deposits sored in tree biomass.
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That is why biomass now generates around a fifth of Britain's renewable electricity, second only to wind.
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This seems, at heart, contradictory to a country known for its sounds, its smells, its churning biomass.
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Microgrids are usually solar-powered, but are sometimes also fueled with diesel, micro-hydropower, wind or biomass.
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Besides sugar and ethanol, the company has capacity to produce electricity fueled by waste biomass from sugarcane.
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The same is true for various social and ecological worries about biomass, hydro, and waste-to-energy.
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California requires investor-owned utilities to buy biomass power from dead trees in high-hazard forested zones.
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According to the statement it plans to build a photovoltaic plant and increase its investment in biomass.
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But associations representing biomass and hydropower electricity, along with those representing baseload sources, have applauded the research.
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Models tend to be much more bullish on energy from biomass, despite its much lower total potential.
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Our government should act now to embrace biomass energy and the economic and environmental benefits it brings.
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Many people are reliant on biomass for cooking their food, over 2.7 billion according to the IEA.
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Drax is in the process of converting its coal-fired power generating plant in Yorkshire to biomass.
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Also known under the term biomass, the quantity was estimated at 755,000 tonnes of salmon, it added.
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It includes targets for conventional and advanced biofuel for 2018 and for biomass-based diesel for 2019.
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Then, knowing the field's biomass in the current season, it can predict what the yield will be.
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The company's investments include operations in energy generation from biomass, distribution of natural gas, fuel and lubricants.
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"We are looking for other sites to build more biomass stations," said Osamu Toribuchi, JRE's general manager.
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Bavaria currently gets a third of its power from renewable sources, including solar, hydroelectric, biomass and geothermal.
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Domestic biomass could provide feedstock for guaranteeing secure power generation during periods of low wind and sunshine.
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The E.P.A. should, however, provide more clarity on biomass to preserve the industry and its many benefits.
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He also once went on a 79-day hunger strike to raise awareness about about biomass fuels.
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It blinds them to the reality that biomass is a useful tool in the climate change challenge.
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So when it comes to emissions, burning coal is technically more carbon-efficient than burning woody biomass.
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Demand exists on a local level, too, says Carrie Annand, executive director of the Biomass Power Association.
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Congressional action would free them to produce renewable, low-carbon biomass energy to power mills and communities.
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DE biomass and coal-fired power generation plants in France on Wednesday, electricity grid operator RTE said.
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He called the Alliance's enduring and expensive belief in biomass stoves of a piece with that history.
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CLEAN ENERGY: Preserves tax credits for producing electricity from wind, biomass, geothermal, solar, municipal waste and hydropower.
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By 2800, biomass accounted for 23 percent of the EU's renewable energy, by far the largest source.
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The biomass industry, Koss argues, isn't driving clear-cutting so much as making use of its waste.
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The science on biomass, unlike that on the influence of carbon dioxide on warming, isn't totally settled.
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Also, "waste wood" being pulped for biomass is only waste because the market doesn't properly value carbon.
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In the future, we could expect pellets to be burned either in converted coal or new biomass plants under the same accounting fallacy as the EU, something that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, a longtime friend of the biomass industry, advocated last year in the wake of the California wildfires.
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They include producing biomass such as forests, burning wood to generate electricity and capturing and sequestering the CO2.
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"Lozère is one of the most forested departments in France; we should use the biomass," says the politician.
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Some California forests plan to use incinerators that will turn the trees into biomass before they become tinder.
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Each year on average, wildebeest migrations result in 6,250 drownings, introducing 1,100 tons of biomass into the river.
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Dr Bar-On suggests that the total biomass of plants has fallen to just half its previous level.
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For a habitat to support one lion, the biomass pyramid shows, it needs a whole lot of insects.
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Less obviously, the lower strata of the biomass pyramid receives less fanfare because of assumptions about harm online.
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"In terms of biomass and volume, theirs is the biggest daily migration on the planet," Dr. Last said.
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Our plant is the first and right now only in Spain using a biomass-based central heating boiler.
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Similar tariffs have been applied to other renewable power sources, including wind, small-scale hydro, biomass and biogas.
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Drax said the project was the first in the world to capture carbon emissions from a biomass plant.
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Renewable energy — mostly wind and solar, plus a little geothermal and biomass — is growing at a record pace.
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Their biomass was seven times that of the 30 million songbirds flying from Britain to Africa each autumn.
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Biomass is considered renewable and powers about 1.5% of U.S. electricity as of 2016, slightly more than solar.
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Finland's largest energy lobby group Energia also projects large increases in the use of biomass in coming years.
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Ants have higher biomass than humans, meaning the total mass of all ants exceeds that of all humans.
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The use of other forest-based products, such as paper, lumber and energy from biomass should be encouraged.
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The soil surface is intact, there is no farming in the desert, biomass remains, the environment is logical.
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In Italy, it owns a series of licensing technologies and biochemical processes fueled by renewable resources, especially biomass.
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"Imagine a biomass the size of the world's largest oil tanker cruising along the coast," Dr. Piraino said.
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After laying their eggs, they die, and their carcasses turn into a biomass that stokes the fecund nature.
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The carbon neutrality of biomass is a science that is far more nuanced than its face value suggests.
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Logging companies claim that biomass burned for power is "carbon neutral" – thus, not yielding a net pollution increase.
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This biomass loophole would increase carbon pollution at a time when it is imperative that we reduce it.
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An area of 43,000 hectares in Brazil's Triângulo Mineiro region will provide biomass for production, according to Duratex.
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Drax has already converted four of its six coal units at the plant near Selby to use biomass.
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While the biomass of these important recreational fisheries increased and fuel prices decreased, recreational saltwater fishing participation decreased.
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"Maybe there will be that magic stove eventually," Smith said of the long push behind improved biomass stoves.
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In 2009, as Massachusetts began debating whether to treat biomass as carbon neutral, he dove into the science.
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If the biomass replaces natural gas, the EAS found, it takes centuries at a minimum to reach parity.
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But these units tend to need to be very large in order to generate a large amount of biomass.
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Drax produced 1.35 million tonnes of biomass pellets at its U.S. sites, up 64 percent from the previous year.
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The Vivobarefoot Ultra Blooms, set to release in July, will be the world's first shoe made from algae biomass.
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Another market segment experiencing rapid growth is the biofuel and biomass industry, which requires agricultural, biological and chemical expertise.
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Only asmall proportion of that total comes from wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and waste, but it is growing fast.
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From solar to wind and biomass to geothermal, renewable sources of energy are entering a new era of importance.
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One important reason for this has been the conversion of large coal-power stations to run on sustainable biomass.
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It can spot 16 different physical characteristics of cancer cells—like size, granularity and biomass—at 95 percent accuracy.
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Unlike conventional bioethanol, advanced bioethanol is based on cellulose or biomass, such as corn cobs, that humans don't eat.
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I don't want to be a mere biomass transporter for my all-knowing phone and its all-seeing camera.
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They range from wind power to solar farms and hydropower dams to burning biomass and waste to heat homes.
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Hence the proposal to grow hydro, wind, solar, and biomass from 27 percent today to 32.473 percent by 2030.
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Kutman said Global Yatirim aimed to invest $500 million in biomass plants, which produce energy by incinerating natural waste.
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The biomass power station, the first in Ivory Coast, would be based in the southern cocoa region of Divo.
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Here, Sustainable Energy breaks down biomass, looking at its uses, its potential and how it can help the planet.
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A recent study by Deloitte proposed converting the refinery into a logistics centre and a facility to refine biomass.
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Their principle would force the EPA to recognize all forest biomass as carbon-neutral, like wind and solar energy.
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The tax break supports investments in fuel cells, geothermal, biomass, combined heat and power systems and small wind power.
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Crappy news: A biomass plant in Minnesota that burns turkey poop is set to close, Minneapolis Public Radio reports.
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The results suggested that Sargassum's summertime biomass has increased by about 800% since the first major bloom in 2011.
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And three, remaining dispatchable resources — demand management, storage, hydro, maybe biomass — will have to be radically, radically scaled up.
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Since 1800 biomass consumption has increased by about 275%, and coal use by more than 60% just since 2000.
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Last year, Lego announced it will develop pieces from "sustainable, plant-based" plastic (made from plant biomass, not oil).
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A proportion of these trees will be able rebuild the biomass and recover, and a number of them won't.
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Critics contend that big public investments in biomass only compel the city to use it for years to come.
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BECCS — raising, harvesting, and burning biomass for energy, while capturing and burying the carbon emissions — is unproven at scale.
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Just a little bit of nuclear or biomass power, for instance, would reduce the amount of power-plant overbuild necessary.
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By 2025, the city aims to be powered entirely by wind, sun, geothermal energy, waste, and wood and other biomass.
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It requires temperatures of at least 1,450°C, so the only viable options are hydrogen, biomass, resistive electric, or CCS.
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"We want to be able to also use beet sugar or even second generation sugar, made from biomass", he said.
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Shell sees plenty of scope to substitute biomass and coal with gas and cleaner energy sources in the developing world.
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It undulates and glistens like the weird alien biomass in Annihilation, with detonations of 808 bass resounding in the deep.
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Sun, wind, water, biomass, waves and tides, and the heat of the soil, all provide alternatives to non-renewable energy.
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No animal comes remotely close to the domination of plants, which account for 80% of the planet's biomass (see chart).
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Environmental Protections The biomass pyramid shows that the distinction between big harm and small harm is, in fact, highly permeable.
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In the new study, the biologists argue that the weight of a jelly translates to significant biomass, and therefore calories.
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The oozing biomass that makes up its body is alive with activity, and capable of splitting off pieces of itself.
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"Globally, gelatinous zooplankton are estimated to constitute a biomass of more than 38 billion kilograms of carbon," he points out.
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a technique that uses solar power to produce clean hydrogen from biomass.
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The report said more efficient stoves that use wood and other biomass received the greatest amount of finance in 22016.
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This represents the greatest hunt of all times in terms of biomass and it decimated whale stocks in all oceans.
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As the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) puts it, biomass refers to "organic material" which comes from animals and plants.
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But even after the first harvest, it continues sucking CO2 out of the air, creating biomass, and replenishing the soil.
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Other methods of cleaner cooking are cheaper, such as advanced biomass cook stoves, liquid petroleum gas stoves or biogas systems.
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Recent research has shown that electricity can be used to double the yield of gas and liquid fuel from biomass.
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Top among them is a controversial biomass policy which undermines both the President's Clean Power Plan and U.S. climate progress.
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And I'm persuaded that we will still find lots of things with biomass, with the sea, with algae, many things.
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In 2017, renewables made up 33.3% of gross electricity generation, with wind power, biomass and solar photovoltaics leading the way.
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Of the 10 plants due to be retired, two will use biomass rather than coal from 2017, the statement said.
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That designation puts biomass in the same category as wind, solar, and other renewables in the eyes of federal officials.
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Even where earthworms were sparse, they still matched the biomass of moose, which is considered a keystone species in Alaska.
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One company, Charm Industrial, burns plant biomass to create hydrogen, capturing the greenhouse gases that are produced in the process.
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"Administrator Pruitt's announcement today reflects the clear scientific consensus on forest biomass," said Andres Villegas, the president of the group.
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It will do so partly by using fuel derived from sustainable oil crops as well as wood and waste biomass.
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The company thinks a hybrid product could be $3 to $4, while the 100% biomass product would be roughly $10.
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The reality is that burning biomass to generate electricity can produce more carbon pollution than it saves by replacing coal.
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Most advanced energy jobs in Indiana are in energy efficiency, followed by transportation, solar, wind, biomass and advanced natural gas.
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In 1988, Germany began transforming its energy sector to one powered largely by renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass.
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But a cadre of scientists and policy activists are now pushing back, saying that biomass energy rests on deceptive accounting.
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"Whether they use organic waste, or they plant the biomass for energy, whichever way the project is worth investigating," he said.
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In May, salmon biomass was up 6 percent year-on-year and in April year-on-year growth was 5 percent.
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But in terms of raw biomass, the results—published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—tell a different story.
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In December, salmon biomass was up 7 percent year-on-year and in November year-on-year growth was 9 percent.
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So we put out an RFP, and we are now working with the new owners to convert their system to biomass.
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Experiments on the Space Shuttle showed that these bacterial cells were thicker and produced more biomass than those grown on Earth.
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But due to concerns over securing supply, the government had asked EDF to study the possibility of using biomass as fuel.
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That's precisely what we need from the Administration and Congress now, as they consider future energy policy, including from wood biomass.
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In March, salmon biomass was up 4 percent year-on-year and in February year-on-year growth was 3 percent.
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Scant though the planktonic biomass is, it does roughly as much biogeochemical work as all the continents' forests, savannahs and farms.
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That would mean wind, solar, biomass and geothermal are in, while coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power are completely out.
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Biomass includes forest wood, timber logging residues, and industry by-products such as wood chips, black liquor and other bio-waste.
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As the fires burn, they also consume peat, or the degraded biomass that gives Scotch its distinctive taste and stores carbon.
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Using data from nine North Korean facilities, the note estimated that 2,851 tons of algae biomass could be produced each year.
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The U.S. power sector currently is comprised of a diverse portfolio of natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar and biomass.
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"The cost of getting biomass policy wrong is high," Sami Yassa of the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a statement.
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Copal Tree Lodge in southern Belize opened Copal Tree Distillery, powered by biomass and using resort-grown sugar cane, last year.
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Scientists have also raised questions about the ecological footprint of biomass and biofuels, which emit carbon dioxide when they are burned.
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The industry also claims that there would be no market for leftover logging residues if they were not used for biomass.
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In 2016, renewables made up 29 percent of gross electricity generation, with wind power, biomass and solar photovoltaics leading the way.
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EPA has committed to a science-driven process in determining which forms of biomass should qualify under the Clean Power Plan.
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Today, nearly two-thirds of the EU's renewables target is being met with biomass – hardly the clean energy revolution we need.
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"By creating cropland, and having fairly intense grazing that removes all the biomass, you are also removing the fuel," says Prentice.
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The United States, like the rest of the world, had an energy policy that recognized the carbon benefits of forest biomass.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted from biomass the same as they did fossil fuels.
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But more than 30% also came from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro and biomass (see left-hand chart).
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In addition to the close proximity of available biomass, which is used to develop the biochemicals replacing petroleum-based inputs, the state's robust transportation infrastructure provides easy access to national and international markets Not only do we have the biomass inputs and the costly infrastructure already in place, the state has established bio-based chemical research hubs.
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That's about 35,000 times heavier than the Empire State building, and about a tenth the weight of all the biomass on Earth.
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Less-established renewables include offshore wind, biomass, energy-from-waste technologies and some combined heat and power projects, a government spokesman said.
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But, points out Schäfer, "there is currently no commercial-scale plant operating" that produces synthetic jet fuel made from, say, cellulosic biomass.
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They were "also providing important information about the energy resources from the wind from the sun and from biomass fuels," he said.
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But over the past eight years, it has overhauled its operations by converting four of its six coal-fired units to biomass.
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Also known under the term biomass, the quantity was estimated at 634,000 tonnes of salmon, it said in a statement on Monday.
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Biomass is from the biosphere, so this really does involve transferring carbon from the biosphere to the geosphere — reducing net atmospheric carbon.
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When considering how ethical reflection can cultivate civility and help stymie information disorder, biomass pyramids provide a helpful, if unexpected, entry point.
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The $70 model still burns cheap biomass, but it uses fans to lower fuel use, shorten cooking times and limit harmful smoke.
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What the research team found along the way was that the remaining biomass, after lipid extraction, is protein-rich and highly nutritious.
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The government needs not choose between competing battery designs or between wind and solar, bio ethanol and wood biomass, geothermal and tidal.
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The harvested biomass could then be used as fuel in power stations, and the emissions from burning them reabsorbed by new crops.
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The uncertainty of federal biomass policy makes it difficult for companies to plan future investments in existing facilities or contemplate new ones.
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Drax said the unit would be able to run 100 percent on biomass instead of co-firing coal in the coming days.
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Overall biomass does impact the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but humanity is a tiny sliver of life on Earth.
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With fuel demand so reduced by electrification, biomass supply will be ample without massive shifts in land use and competition with food.
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"You can make more biomass by doing that in a controlled environment," says Iliana Brigitta Baums, a biology professor at Penn State.
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"There will be a scramble for fuels as countries like China and South Korea are looking to expand biomass power," he said.
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The House bill, which was passed mostly with Republican votes, does not include the Senate biomass provision, but contains numerous terrible proposals.
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Dr. Reiss said estimates for krill biomass are based on summer surveys, but data is scant in winter, when fishing has increased.
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In the marine ecosystem, tiny living things called microbes make up most of the ocean's biodiversity and over half of its biomass.
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Each is equipped with a trio of cameras offering up 3D models of the plant along with biomass volume and thermal readings.
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Uniper's electricity generation fleet in France includes coal, gas, biomass, wind, and solar, with a total installed capacity of over 2,000 megawatts.
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Without adequate cooking facilities, these 2628 billion must rely on biomass and dung that exposes them to unhealthy levels of air pollution.
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About two-thirds of the energy used to make paper, including paper bags, comes from renewable, carbon-neutral biomass, not fossil fuel.
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A dramatic fall in the costs of wind and solar power has driven strong growth in those sectors; biomass, however, has struggled.
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Today these nuances have rendered woody biomass an oddity in the realm of polarized debate about non-fossil-fuel sources of energy.
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Harvesting trees for biomass also diminishes our forests—one of the best tools we have in the urgent fight against climate change.
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The forest and all its biomass hold 3 gigatons — or 3 billion metric tons — of carbon, more than any other U.S. forest.
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Insect biomass is declining by a staggering 2.5% a year, a rate that indicates widespread extinctions within a century, the report found.
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The Amazon stores about 10 years' worth of human-produced emissions in its biomass, but there's tremendous economic pressure to exploit it.
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They want to know how much carbon is in the biomass above ground, and how much is in the mud below ground.
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It's one of the nation's leading producers of corn and ethanol but has yet to begin any utility-scale biomass electricity generation.
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Within two years of the Alliance's launch, evidence began to emerge suggesting its plan for biomass stoves improving health outcomes wasn't working.
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And the Alliance says continuing to provide biomass stoves is worthwhile because so many people won't have access to propane anytime soon.
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Biomass is used in industrial boilers in many countries in emerging Asia, and in residential heat in France, Italy, Canada, and Finland.
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That's because in 230, the EU committed itself to 21000 percent renewable energy by 280, and put biomass on the renewables list.
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"In the top layer [of the ocean] you see there is a ton of biomass between 10 meters and 30 meters" Wagner says.
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Biomass – which comes primarily from wood and sawmill waste, has helped a school in Tok displace 65,000 gallons of fuel oil per year.
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It has installed a biomass boiler fueled by vine cuttings, pomace and other materials that traditionally were burned, emitting plumes of carbon dioxide.
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"Managing the forest is essential— we have very dense Mediterranean biomass in our forests and it provides a lot of fuel," he said.
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In the piece, the professors encourage us to think about Twitter as an ecosystem in which users have varying degrees of "biomass" (followers).
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Needless to say, it's a significant chunk of biomass, and the many scavenging animals who make the Serengeti their home take full advantage.
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Humans have bred so many animals for food that Earth's mammalian biomass is thought to have quadrupled since the stone age (see chart).
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The Ethics of the Biomass It's not just that online ethics help facilitate more reflective, more empathetic, and indeed, more civil online interactions.
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In biology, biomass pyramids chart the relative number or weight of one class of organism compared to another organism within the same ecosystem.
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Also known under the term biomass, the quantity was estimated at 724,000 tonnes of salmon, down from 739,000 the previous month, it added.
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Under pressure from government plans to close all coal plants by 2025, Drax has increasingly turned to burning compressed wood pellets, or biomass.
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DONG Energy says the biomass system has a capacity of 45 megawatts and is able to take 25 tonnes of straw every hour.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met last week with executives making electricity from biomass, a term used to describe organic waste like scrap lumber.
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In 2015 around 25% of Britain's electricity was generated from a variety of renewable sources including tidal, hydro, solar and biomass power stations.
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Also known under the term biomass, the quantity was estimated at 635,000 tonnes of salmon, down from 654,000 the previous month, it added.
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While biomass applications have also shot up, analysts say the higher barriers to entry mean that many projects will simply never be built.
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When it opened in the 1970s it burned only coal but these days, four of its six generators are powered solely by biomass.
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Domestic supply of biomass on the other hand, is forecast to grow by only 8 TWh between now and 2030, according to Poyry.
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The logistics of moving biomass from northern Finland was also a limitation, he said, as shipping from neighboring countries was cheaper for utilities.
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As the U.S. Energy Information Administration puts it, biomass is organic material from animals or plants, and is a renewable source of energy.
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With just over 720,000 people working in solid biomass, IRENA describes it – along with liquid biofuels and biogas – as being a "major" employer.
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"Due to such particles plus the gases, anthropogenic biomass burning is responsible for about 20% of global warming," Jacobson wrote to Business Insider.
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Three federal agencies said Thursday that they're working to embrace burning trees and other biomass to create energy in a "carbon-neutral" way.
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Solar, wind, biomass and other renewables generated 363 percent of world electricity in 2017, up from 5.2 percent a decade earlier, it said.
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Heritage Action has indicated it will key vote against the FAA bill if subsidies for fuel cells, geothermal and biomass are ultimately added.
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Signers of the letter include the National Hydropower Association, Biomass Power Association, Geothermal Energy Association, Energy Recovery Council and the American Biogas Council.
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The auctions are energy neutral, meaning all renewable energy forms can qualify, including solar, wind, biomass, biogas among others, the energy ministry said.
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That's why the U.K. Committee on Climate Change called biomass among the "key components of strategies for mitigating climate change" just last year.
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When activists are so zealously opposed to logging trees for any purpose whatsoever, it's no surprise they'd spread misleading arguments about wood biomass.
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The auctions are energy neutral, meaning all renewable energy forms can qualify, including solar, wind, biomass, biogas among others, the energy ministry said.
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In comparison, a 23,000-kilowatt-hour coal plant emits 1,048 grams of CO265 per kilowatt hour — 22011 grams less than the biomass plant.
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Sedjo argues that as U.S. forests are growing in aggregate, any forest biomass sourced for electricity production should be exempted from climate regulations.
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There are ways to mitigate the biomass loss from logging and ranching, by being careful about which trees to cut and reforesting afterwards.
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They make up the majority of the biomass in some ecosystems, outweighing predators sharing their environments by a factor of 20 to 1.
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I encourage American readers to imagine a farm bill and land uses that would prize biomass as one of its indices of success.
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The company's energy production capacity through its biomass thermal plants also adds to the credit profile due to its more stable cash flow.
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Several countries, like the United Kingdom, subsidized the biomass industry, creating a sudden market for wood not good enough for the timber industry.
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The carbon-neutrality argument for biomass assumes that when a new tree grows back, it rebinds the carbon burned decades before for energy.
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The biomass industry disputes these numbers, arguing that "thinning" a forest causes the remains trees to grow faster, taking up carbon more quickly.
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In the longer term, it will come from dispatchable renewable sources (geothermal, small-run hydro, possibly some biomass), storage, load shifting, efficiency, and conservation.
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Back at Picnic, solar power and biomass engines are used at its logistical hubs, while its business model helps to mitigate any environmental impact.
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Salamanders are important predators of invertebrates like snails, worms and insects, and they make up a huge portion of the biomass in many forests.
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Between the biomass left on the forest floor and the carbon lost during manufacturing, lumber retains only about 30 percent of its original carbon.
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Subsidies have helped finance the switch to biomass, which consists of plant and agricultural matter and is viewed as a promising substitute for coal.
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Most of the biomass used by Drax consists of low-grade wood, sawmill residue and trees with little commercial value from the United States.
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The country's new long-term energy policy includes hydropower but puts more emphasis on solar and wind, complemented by geothermal, biomass and ocean energy.
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Between 1989 and 2016 he found the biomass of flying insects in this corner of western Germany fell 19303%, or over 5% a year.
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In a farm, there's enough biomass that is viable in the form of weeds, residue, and plant parts that do not have economic value.
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Peatlands cover just 3 percent of the world's land surface, but contain twice as much carbon as the entire biomass of the world's forests.
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Geothermal plants and wind turbines are also prominent sources of power, while biomass and solar power provide a tiny but growing share of electricity.
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"Our system is able to convert the long, messy structures that make up biomass into hydrogen gas, which is much more useful," Wakerley added.
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They believe nuclear, CCS, biomass, waste-to-energy, run-of-river hydro, and who knows what else will eventually be needed to fully decarbonize.
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Massive governmental support for alternative energy sources has encouraged Germans, especially in rural areas, to invest in solar power, wind turbines and biomass plants.
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For many years, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy acknowledged and treated biomass energy as 'carbon neutral', in line with the rest of the world.
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Vivobarefoot, which makes barely-there running shoes with ultrathin soles, designed a shoe that replaces plastic materials with a foam derived from algae biomass.
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Biomass has a 2030 target of up to 4.6 pct, and reached 1.8 pct by March 2016, mainly plants built before the 2012 FIT.
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Drax is working with a local company called C-Capture, which has developed a chemical to trap the CO2 from its biomass flue gases.
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Algae, plantlike organisms that includes kelp and spirulina, is a multipurpose resource that can produce food, fertilizer, feedstock and fuel from the same biomass.
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"Now, solar and wind is not under your control — it is not energy on demand — but biomass, that is under your control," he said.
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Fuel combustion of both coal and biomass in households was another major cause of disease that year, resulting in 22.5,2916 deaths, the study concluded.
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Data from the U.S. Energy Department's own Energy Information Administration shows that treating biomass as carbon neutral increases its use, and consequent carbon emissions.
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If it succeeds, biomass technologies will be eligible for new funding in the race inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement toward carbon-neutral fuels.
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"Today's announcement grants America's foresters much-needed certainty and clarity with respect to the carbon neutrality of forest biomass," Pruitt said in a statement.
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The idea is that trees and other plants take in carbon dioxide from the air as they grow and store it in their biomass.
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A study in Germany, for instance, reported a midsummer decline of 82 percent in the biomass of flying insects over the past quarter century.
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Wind power output in the first half 2017 had amounted to 48 billion, solar 20 billion, biomass 20 billion and hydro 7 billion kWh.
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In 2016, renewables made up 29 percent of gross electricity generation in the country, with wind power, biomass and solar photovoltaics leading the way.
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The draft rule will apply to non-hydropower resources, including wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and ocean power, the energy body said in a statement.
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"I believe that exterminating all mosquitoes could have severe ecological consequences, as mosquitoes make up a substantial biomass in aquatic ecosystems globally," he said.
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Hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass accounted for over 98 percent of its total electricity output in 2015, according to the regional economic commission report.
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"The common carp is a nasty pest in our waterways and makes up 80 percent of fish biomass in the Murray-Darling Basin," Pyne said.
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More optimistically, they also point to opportunities to use reject brine, for example, in aquaculture, where it has achieved increases in fish biomass of 300%.
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Another is to apply carbon capture and storage to biomass-burning power plants, stashing the carbon sucked up by crops or trees burnt as fuel.
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Boback notes that the pythons convert about 80 percent of the food they consume into biomass — that is, into either growing bigger or producing babies.
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The idea is to rapidly scale up various options for securing the biomass and complementing it with associated activities to generate a closed loop operation.
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Thomsen went on to explain that most of the biomass being used was sourced from Baltic countries that are home to a big timber industry.
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For example, two species with the same unfished biomass may, because of their ways of life, be under different levels of strain from net-casters.
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As a result, Poyry says the country will have to import biomass as well as improve forest management and ensure greater utilization of harvest residues.
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The proposed changes, she says, "better reflect the location of the biomass" – that is, the area where the species is most likely to be found.
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The division was hit by litigation issues in Ireland, and extra costs and delays after glitches at two biomass power plants in the United Kingdom.
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Kantor said that, right now, sorghum produces 10-15 tons of dry biomass per hectare, but they're hoping they can increase that yield through breeding.
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Ants, tent caterpillars, bees and wasps — a wildly prolific subset of insects, whose collective biomass far outweighs that of humans — live in highly interdependent colonies.
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Critics have quickly homed in on a unanimously adopted amendment recognizing the renewability and carbon benefits of biomass energy derived from wood and plant material.
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The facility has six units: four which have been converted to generate power using what Drax describes as "sustainable biomass," and two which use coal.
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Another faction believes that renewables will ultimately fall short and need assistance from nuclear power and natural gas or biomass with carbon capture and storage.
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To limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius using BECCS, one estimate found that it would require biomass planted over an area larger than India.
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And though these new trees will eventually sequester the CO2 released from burning biomass, this a debt that won't be repaid until they reach maturity.
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For one simple explanation, "energy input from the sun over time predicts that the tropics can sustain more biomass and thus more species," he said.
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In April, it will add the 120-room Il Castelfalfi hotel, built to be energy efficient with biomass heating and water and food waste recycling.
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The study utilized biomass data from deepwater-trawl surveys from 2004 to 2016, as well as diver surveys of shallow nearshore regions from Alaska to California.
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The new environmental police would among other things, crack down on open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and biomass burning — areas previously overlooked by authorities, Xinhua reported.
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Under the law, power from solar, wind, biomass and geothermal sources would rise to at least 11,400 gigawatt hours (GWh) by 2035 from 2,831 GWh now.
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Measures to cut emissions, such as the production of biofuels, biochar - made from biomass - as well as planting trees, will also increase demand for land conversion.
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RTE said the walkouts will hit Uniper's 595 megawatt (MW) capacity Provence 5 coal power plant, and the 170 MW Provence 4 biomass electricity generation site.
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"An important topic of current research is to what extent hydrogen, sustainably grown biomass or renewables-based synthetic fuels can substitute for fossil fuels," he added.
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He sits on top of a digitally-rendered turbine with Paul Hawken, an environmentalist and founder of Project Drawdown, to talk about biomass and wind energy.
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Electricity is hard to monopolise because it can be produced from numerous sources of fuel, from natural gas and nuclear to wind, solar, hydro and biomass.
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With 322 million people in the country and accounting for the gender ratio, that works out to a total human biomass of around 56.5 billion pounds.
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Wind, solar, biomass and other sustainable sources should provide at least 16 percent of the country's energy requirements by 2023, up from 6.6 percent last year.
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It's important to note that biomass, and the products produced from it, such as biofuels, have an impact on the environment, and it's not always positive.
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Last year, Sustainable Energy spoke to Arthur Kay, founder and CEO of bio-bean, a company that turns waste coffee grounds into biomass pellets and briquettes.
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The renewable fuel standard requires petroleum companies to include a certain level of cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuel in the gasoline they make.
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The second generation advanced biofuels (extracted from biomass) are not affected as acutely as they are protected by a more benevolent regulatory mechanism in North America.
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In an announcement Monday, Shell said that customers of Shell Energy would be offered renewable electricity from sources such as biomass, solar and wind, as standard.
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Earlier this year Danish energy company, DONG Energy, announced it would stop "all use of coal" by 2023 and look to focus on sustainable biomass instead.
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Coal, natural gas, nuclear, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric power are all capable of providing energy 24/85033, what energy experts refer to as "base load" energy.
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" They added that, "Removing biomass from growing forests… helps prevent wildfires – themselves a source of CO2 pollution – by clearing out dense undergrowth that increases fire risk.
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These days the rivers seethe with the highly adaptable carp, which make up as much as 90 percent of the fish biomass in the river systems.
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In Missouri, farmers have joined forces with coal experts and engineers to develop an upgraded version of biomass that protects the environment while keeping costs low.
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That's because in its desperation to make these policies look as if they're working, the European Union counts firewood as "biomass," and considers it carbon-neutral.
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The primary growth markets are India and South East Asia, Young said, driven largely by a desire to reduce burning of biomass to improve air quality.
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"'A catastrophic collapse of Earth's ecosystems'According to Goulson's report, "it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there has been a major decline in insect biomass.
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That year, geothermal and hydropower accounted for about 13 percent and 12 percent of electrical production, respectively, with solar, wind and biomass providing only one percent.
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When the full life cycle of the fuel is considered, there are abundant and near-term carbon benefits, especially if biomass is replacing fossil fuel use.
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Out of six coal-fired generation units at Drax's power station, three have been converted to biomass and a fourth is scheduled for conversion this summer.
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But it has been hit by a fall in oil prices, which has slowed the development of so-called advanced biofuels made from non-edible biomass.
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Although the percentage shares of biomass, coal and oil in our energy supply have fallen with the rise of alternatives, their total use continues to grow.
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Under a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy unveiled on Monday, burning forest products, known as biomass, will now be considered a "carbon neutral" fuel source.
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" In a statement, Andres Villegas, the president and CEO of the Georgia Forestry Association said that EPA's announcement, "Reflects the clear scientific consensus on forest biomass.
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FEWER FISH: Fish biomass is projected to decrease by 3-25 percent by the end of the century in low and high climate warming scenarios, respectively.
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As for the farmers who send turkey droppings to the biomass incinerator, they would be stuck with an estimated 250,000 tons of turkey excrement per year.
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Biomass just hasn't attracted the level of attention or investment of other renewables, said Logan O'Grady of Clean Energy Economy Minnesota, an industry-led nonprofit group.
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Reykjavik, the CDP said, sourced all of its electricity from hydropower and geothermal, while Burlington, Vermont, gets all its electricity from wind, hydro, solar and biomass.
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Instead of measuring crop output, Tree and Burrell began measuring their success in biomass -- how much life in the soil, air and water they could support.
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With truly zero-carbon, renewable energy sources available to us, we should not be focusing on burning biomass as a strategy for dealing with climate change.
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The black substance is also a form of the same biomass Luther hoped he could use to create an immunity shot against the disease for humans.
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"Clean and zero-emission" specifically uses "and" to make room for both renewables and nuclear power, or even, say, biomass electricity with carbon capture and sequestration.
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"Clean and zero-emission" specifically uses "and" to make room for both renewables and nuclear power, or even, say, biomass electricity with carbon capture and sequestration.
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As they steadily wean themselves off coal, European Union nations are banking on wood energy, or "biomass," to meet their obligations under the Paris climate agreement.
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Rather than being carbon neutral, biomass is liquidating millions of tons of irreplaceable carbon stocks in the midst of a climate crisis already out of control.
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Comprised of hundreds of thousands of mammalian aeronauts, these massive clouds of biomass seem to move as one organism, demonstrating the extraordinary coordination of individual bats.
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The lingering damage is still discernible: a relative dearth of megafauna, skewed predator-to-prey ratios, insufficient biomass all around for the energy that this planet produces.
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The biomass-based diesel (D4) credits for current year traded up to $1.02 apiece, up from a range of 99.75 cents to $1.005 each previously, they said.
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Two-thirds of India's population still lives outside of cities, and 80 percent of these households rely on biomass like wood and dung for cooking and heating.
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She said a second option would be to convert some of its remaining coal-fired plants to burning biomass, which is deemed to be a renewable fuel.
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There's a way to argue that burning biomass is carbon neutral if you look at the calculations on a long term scale while ignoring the immediate dangers.
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Drax, which generates about 6 percent of Britain's electricity, has converted four of its former coal-fired plants to biomass wood pellets, often made from compressed sawdust.
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Drax, which generates about 6 percent of Britain's electricity, has converted three of its former coal-fired plants to biomass wood pellets, often made from compressed sawdust.
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Kauai's main utility says it is well on its way to meeting that target thanks to a growing number of solar, small-scale hydropower and biomass projects.
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To power the system, the team turned to burning wood chips and other biomass, a renewable source of energy that has the added benefit of producing heat.
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The IEEFA report cited US government statistics that project renewable energy (hydro, biomass, wind, solar and geothermal) will start to sporadically exceed coal in 2019 and 2020.
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Using free satellite data from the UN, PlantVillage can monitor biomass on a plot of land, giving small-scale farmers insight into how their crops are developing.
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Usually they follow a "boom and bust" strategy, varying in biomass by several orders of magnitude from year to year, changes that are notoriously difficult to predict.
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The Washington Post went a step further to make an even more horrifying comparison: The total biomass of all humans is thought to be about 287 millions.
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They urged the agency to increase biomass-based biodiesel requirements and not to decrease the amount of advanced biofuels required to be added to the fuel supply.
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Companies and governments added a record 210.3,33 megawatts of new wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources in 23, the report found.
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It would boost dirty fossil fuels and dangerous nuclear projects while advancing a controversial biomass policy which undermines the President's Clean Power Plan and U.S. climate progress.
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Its portfolio of renewables — including wind farms, solar panels, biomass burning plants and hydroelectric plants — produced 20203 percent of the nation's power, according to a new analysis.
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An impact crater in beneath Greenland's ice, an effort to use biomass pellets to power homes, and a rarely seen jellyfish are our other stories this Tuesday.
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This fuel starts from ethanol, which can come from waste industrial gas or from carbon-removing biomass, which is then converted into a drop-in jet fuel.
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Such imports could come from other countries around the Baltic coast, including Russia, from where Finland is already sourcing some of its biomass, said Leskela of Energia.
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The plan aims to push through cuts in industrial emissions and vehicular exhaust fumes, introduce stringent rules for transport fuels and biomass burning and reduce dust pollution.
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"When you are running a solar photovoltaic site, a biomass plant or a combined heat-and-power facility, you are not exposed to market prices," she said.
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Adjusted EBITDA at RWE's European Power segment, which comprises its gas, hard coal and biomass plants, rose 13 percent to 167 million euros in the first quarter.
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Rather than look for private escape routes, we should recognize the full extent of our planetary and existential dump, of the biomass that we all have become.
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The burning of biomass also emits carbon dioxide but can be made carbon neutral by planting new forests, as in Vaxjo, which absorb the gas to grow.
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Carbon capture stores the whole amount, whereas plants elegantly store only 27% of that weight as carbon biomass, releasing the oxygen to the atmosphere for our benefit.
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The Senate also passed an amendment to the Energy Policy Modernization Act that established the same goals for the use of forest biomass as an energy solution.
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The list doesn&apost include startups that make electric vehicles (EVs) or scooters, EV infrastructure, fuels from biomass, or those that provide services to highly localized markets.
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"It is a forest in a different way -- it is an upside-down forest, because a lot of the biomass is underground," de Oliviera Rosa told CNN.
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And really, underground is where so much of the Arctic mystery still lies: In these tundra ecosystems, up to 80 percent of the biomass is below ground.
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Novozymes supplied Raízen with enzymes used in the fermentation process, which was another technological challenge since the biomass needed a new type of fermentation to produce ethanol.
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The sheer density of "biomass" had a mounting emotional effect on me, particularly when my thoughts inevitably drifted to just how much below me had already died.
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But it can also act as a bio-fertilizer by increasing the carbon content of depleted soil to enhance the cultivation of crops and production of biomass.
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" But the National Biodiesel Board said the proposal "continues to underestimate the ability of the biomass-based diesel industry to meet the volumes of the RFS program.
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Talk to the recreational boat tied to the dock while black sea bass is at an all time high level of biomass and the answer is clear.
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"Other fuels at the time were more niche, so by focusing on biomass cookstoves we would have a higher impact," Pursnani said, describing the Alliance's early approach.
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On top of that, we'd likely need to add significant nuclear capacity as well as carbon capture for coal, gas, and biomass every single year through 300.
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There are few bigger players in the biomass industry than Drax Group, whose flagship power plant in the north of England sucks up nearly a quarter of global wood pellet production, about two-thirds of it from the US. The UK has bought big into biomass, and Drax powers 22018 percent of the British electric grid, in large part thanks to massive government subsidies: about $22018 billion a year.
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Renewable energy -- including not just solar and wind but also water, biomass and geothermal steam -- narrowly overtook coal by climbing to 257.53 gigawatts of installed capacity, FERC said.
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There are two main strategies: The first is to decrease the overall biomass of microbes—that is, decrease the amount of bacteria, viruses, and other types of microorganisms.
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Displacing coal with natural gas is already reducing pollution, in power generation and industry, but also by replacing biomass in homes and substituting oil in the transport system.
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By 2030, America aims to produce 5% of its power, 20% of its transport fuel and 25% of its chemicals from biomass—mostly farm, forestry and municipal waste.
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While scientists disagree over the extent to which biomass as a fuel is environmentally friendly, Drax highlights that its supplies come from from sustainably managed and growing forests.
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"We've industrialized the process of turning waste coffee grounds into a bio-diesel and a biomass pellet product," Arthur Kay, CEO of the business, has previously told CNBC.
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The country plans to have a total renewable energy capacity of 175 GW by 2022 through a mix of sources such as solar, wind, biomass and small hydro.
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The company said it could convert its remaining three coal-burning units to biomass in the next two to three years if the government sets the right conditions.
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On top of that, we'd likely need to start adding significant nuclear capacity as well as carbon capture for coal, gas, and biomass every single year through 20.
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