| Biomass has come to the fore over recent years | | | | These materials are readily available, and considering |
| due to the rise in costs of traditional energy sources. | | | | the amount of waste we produce in terms of each |
| In this article we'll look at how it is produced, what | | | | household, there is certainly an argument for saying |
| materials can be made use of in the process, and | | | | we should start switching to Biomass fuels. Some |
| what the resultant energy can be used for. | | | | farmers in Britain have switched to this kind of |
| Biomass Energy: An Overview | | | | production because of the various incentives coming |
| There are a lot of ways that energy can be made. | | | | online. One drawback of biomass is that it means land |
| The burning of fossil fuels, the utilisation of sunshine | | | | that was once used for the production of food is |
| for the production of solar energy or making use of | | | | now used for this - which means less food, obviously. |
| water movement for hydroelectric generators - are | | | | In Britain we produce 65 percent of our food, which |
| all ways of making energy. The Earth's core can also | | | | is pretty good for such a small island; but the |
| be used to produce - termed 'geothermal energy'. | | | | introduction of this energy generation method might |
| Perhaps due to the many people still making a | | | | reduce this. |
| massive profit from traditional energy forms, Biomass | | | | But as a nation that no longer has any substantial oil |
| is sometimes neglected or underused. In recent | | | | reserves, a country that finds it too expensive to dig |
| times, though, it has come to the fore as a possible | | | | coal out of the ground - and indeed a state that |
| replacement to these energy forms. | | | | needs to reduce pollution, then the utilisation of |
| Biomass is a term used for material that is living or | | | | biomass technology is arguably one that could |
| dead that can be used for energy production. It could | | | | address these problems to a certain degree. The |
| be anything from household waste, shrubs, grass, | | | | country that owns the energy is the country that |
| weeds, wood chippings together with many other | | | | has a great deal of power. Russia has a great deal of |
| types of material. | | | | influence these days, not because of its army, navy, |
| Biomass energy is created when these items are | | | | air force or nuclear weapons - but because it has |
| incinerated as fuel to produce energy. Some of these | | | | vast reserves of gas - which Europe, for one, |
| materials are used to create steam which is then, by | | | | consumes a great deal of. Biomass might start |
| the use of generators, used to create heat and | | | | shifting this power. |
| energy. | | | | |