Bioenergy — a renewable carbon sink
Bioenergy is a mature technology which, in its several facets using modern biomass conversion systems, provides a significantly greater contribution towards the global primary energy supply than do all the existing and planned wind and solar projects together. Where specialist long rotation energy crops are grown on land that was previously in pasture or annual crops, biomass also provides a carbon sink. However, the “image” of biomass is generally much poorer than wind and solar in the public mind due to a lack of understanding of the technology. Policy makers and the media also pay greater attention to usually more photogenic wind and solar technologies. This paper presents an outline of the potential energy contribution from biomass with particular emphasis on examples of commercial projects in Australasia.
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2001
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Authors: | Sims, Ralph E.H |
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Renewable Energy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0960-1481. - Vol. 22.2001, 1, p. 31-37
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Elsevier |
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