Given that man produced his very first campfire to maintain warm, prepare meals, and maintain predators at bay, we have been harnessing biomass energy for our purposes. When effectively managed such forests supply a good quantity of biomass (simply five t/ha/y for a temperate broadleaved forest) and all the environmental solutions and externalities of a protected forest, except for the conservation of old-growth dependant species.

Having said that, in the 19th and 20th centuries fossil fuels frequently started to take more than so that in most created countries, such as Japan, France, Germany and the US biomass became only a very small contributor to the total power mix.

According to trials taking place in Japan, if the biomass is going to be transported in from 200 km away, the quantity of energy needed to transport the biomass is going to be bigger than the power that can be produced. When … READ MORE ...