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Biomass  What is Biomass? Biomass is a biological material from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, gas and alcohol fuels. Its a renewable energy source.In the sense of biomass for energy this is often used to mean plant material, but biomass could be apply to both animal and vegetable material.

Examples of Biomass.... Wood Wastes
 * Trees
 * Shrubs
 * Paper, food and yard wastes, platics, wood, and tires
 * Sewage

Crops > soybean, sunflower, safflower
 * Corn, wheat, and barley
 * Oilseed crops

How does the Biomass work? 1. You burn fuel(plant waste or other materials) then heat water to make steam then steam turns a turbine then turbines turn generators then there is electrical power.

2. When garbage is burned or is allowed to decompose it gives off methane gas. Pipelines are put into the landfills and the methane gas is collected. It is then used to make energy in to plants.

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Biomass includes varied organic matter like grass, leaves, wood, wood chips, rice husk, peanut shells, sugarcane fiber, sewage etc.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Biomass energy is a renewable form of energy as plants can be grown in a short time. In fact it is considered one of the key renewable resources of the future.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Scientists are trying to find more efficient ways of using biomass energy as it has greater benefits for the environment than fossil fuels. Biomass energy will help the world cut down on waste production of green house gases.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chemically, biomass is made of complex polymers of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. It also contains small amounts of nitrogen.