Encyclopedia > Biomass

  Article Content

Biomass

Biomass is the organic non-fossil material of biological origin, collectively. For example, plants (including trees) and animals are biomass, as are materials they produce, such as animal droppings and wood. Biomass is sometimes burned as fuel for cooking and to produce electricity and heat. Biomass used as fuel often consists of underutilized types, like chaff and animal waste.

In some industrialized countries, like Germany, paradoxically, food is cheaper than fuel compared by price per joule. Someone demonstrated a central heating unit supplied by food grade wheat.

See also

biosphere

External link

http://www.getreideheizung.de/



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Shoreham, New York

... The average household size is 2.88 and the average family size is 3.11. In the village the population is spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 34 ms