the United States and biomass as a feedstock source relative to fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. An estimate of … the biomass resource base is provided. Estimated changes in the agricultural sector over time resulting from the … development of a large-scale biobased industry are reported, and a study on the potential to produce electricity from biomass …

For a number of years, the interest in energy generation on the basis of biomass and waste has been increasing. A brief … overview is given of biomass waste availability in the Netherlands. In recent years several new projects related to energy … generation from biomass and waste are initiated in the Netherlands. The results and status of some major projects are outlined in …

Biomass is the second most frequently used fuel, after coal, in China, which accounts for 20% of primary energy … consumption. Though the main usage of biomass is for household cooking, the newly developed biomass gasification technology …, especially the circulating fluidized bed gasification (CFBG) technology, has laid the foundations for allowing biomass …

Biomass energy is expected to play a major role in the substitution of renewable energy sources for fossil fuels over … the next several decades. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA 2012) forecasts increases in the share of biomass … Protection Agency (EPA) is considering regulations to be applied to biomass energy carbon emissions. A basic approach for …

biofuels depends on how farmers would respond in providing biomass feedstock, yet economic behavior by farmers has been under … convert current grain cropland to grow a dedicated cellulosic biomass crop such as switchgrass. However, the financial … incentives to harvest cellulosic biomass provided by the 2008 farm bill may stimulate corn production due to demand for corn …

Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Authorized in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, BCAP is designed to … ensure that a sufficiently large base of new nonfood, nonfeed biomass crops is established in anticipation of future demand … establishment and production of eligible crops including wood biomass in selected project areas for conversion to bioenergy, and the …