Biomass+Power

= Biomass Power : Burn to Grow = By Antoinette Cozier

This is a picture of one of the many power plants of biomass. Also causing a disadvantage of global warming and other pollutions. **Important Vocabulary: **
 * bio-energy - energy produced by biomass.
 * bio-fuel - a fuel produced by biomass.
 * bio-gas - gas fuel produced by biomass, especially methane.
 * compost - decayed plants and organic matter which biomass uses to make electricity.
 * digester - a tank in which biomass decomposes and produces bio-gas.
 * gasification - process of converting solid or liquid biomass into a gas.

**Advantages: **
 * Biomass is available all around the world.
 * There is an inexhaustible fuel source.
 * The fuels produced are efficient, viable, and clean-burning.
 * Biomass is cheaper than other fuels.
 * Biomass produces less demand on fossil fuel.
 * Biomass is renewable and can save both the environment and the economy.
 * Biomass is very natural which makes it favorable to our society.
 * Biomass uses waste which normally everyone throws out.

**Disadvantages:**
 * There is difficulty in growing or collecting the fuel in sufficient quantities.
 * Biomass is burned causing green house pollution just like fossil fuel.
 * Some of the waste material used to make biomass is not available all year round.
 * It may be a difficult process to create this energy.
 * There may not be enough space to grow biomass fuel.
 * If directly burned biomass can cause global warming and other pollutions.
 * Producing and converting biomass can cost lots of money.

**Steps to Create Electricity: **
 * 1) Waste is picked up from various dumps and recycling facilities.
 * 2) The waste is piled up into many different trucks which are taken to a biomass plant.
 * 3) The biomass is placed in hoppers and then into a furnace to be burned.
 * 4) The heat coming off of the burning biomass is used to boil water.
 * 5) The steam from the water is then used to move the turbines.
 * 6) Moving the turbines creates electricity through the generator.

**Conservation of Energy:** **News Article: __[|Bill 'could create' US market for large-scale biomass heat.]__**
 * In step #4 kinetic energy of the biomass is transformed into heat energy.
 * In step #6 hydroelecrtic dam power is transformed into electrical energy.

This is an article about a bill that would offer more money to biomass production and make biomass the new source of electricity. The last bill was turned down but would have raised the spending cap. Biomass producers are looking to increase the spending cap to help generate the US.

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This is a video of how biomass will someday be a better fuel sorce than fossil fuel energy.

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This is a video about different biomass fuels and how they are greener than fossil fuels.