Biomass Energy

Where does come from? Biomass energy can be produced from what most people would consider garbage or waste products. 

For example: Many of us have created compost piles for gardening. By taking our waste products like grass clippings, wood chips, tree branches, dead leaves, branches etc... placing them into the pile or a compost heap

As this material decomposes it releases methane gas which is the main ingredient in natural gas. Of course building a compost pile in your backyard probably would not give you enough gas to run your household on, yet it could meet some of your energy needs.

When it comes to an industrial scale, waste is generally trucked into a facility or it is used on-site where it could be burned in a boiler, generating steam to driving a turbine producing electricity.

The use of biomass energy is essentially carbon neutral. As plants grow they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for use during photosynthesis to make sugars.

As the plants or waste decay or they’re burned they release the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere, for a zero sum gain.

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