subject: What Are the Advantages of Biomass Electricity? [print this page] What Are the Advantages of Biomass Electricity?
Today we live in the world which is rapidly changing and moving fast. The speed at which we are affecting our ozone layer is very fast, as we can imagine how the weather conditions use to be 20 years back and now how the weather is changing. The glaciers are also melting at a fast rate and this is now creating many problems for the people. We must act fast and switch to environmental friendly products. Environmental friendly products do not harm the ozone layer and this is one of the main advantages of biomass energy. Biomass energy is the best alternative source for producing electricity, fuels and other in other form of industries.
Biomass is basically made out of all the natural things, starting from forest and agriculture products, such as plants, trees, wood, pieces of wood, dead plants and roots, dead animals, and any plant you can think of can be produced as a biomass. Even human beings are a source for producing biomass as well. The waste from animals and humans, the garbage that we throw, all these things can be re utilized and formed as a biomass.
Biomass is very advantageous because it comes out from a total natural process and source and is not harmful in any way. Many of us don't know what biomass actually is and how beneficial it is for human's survival. Today the pollution rate has increased to more than 100 times than the past decades, and this is greatly damaging our ozone layer and it is effecting global warming in return. We burn different types of products and chemicals to produce electricity, fuel, and many other day to day usage materials in our lives that are constantly damaging the ozone layer.
Producing electricity is not a tough job for the people who produce electricity; it is just that not many people are aware of biomass. Electricity is produced from biomass by a process called cogeneration; this is a process which you actually burn the biomass which can include anything from wood clips to dead plants or any natural item you can use. The stream produced from burning the biomass moves the turbines in order to produce electricity. This steam can also be utilized for many other different purposes such as drying of fruit, vegetables and edible products.
One more advantage of biomass is that it does not emit methane or CH4; instead it emits carbon dioxide which is not harmful compared to methane burning which is very harmful to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and also the ozone layer.
If we notice that in the olden days when there was no electricity and no other source for heating, people use to burn woods and other materials, these were the biomass sources at that time, but people were not aware of its benefits because it never harmed the environment.
We should hope that our government enforces electricity to be produced from biomass soon.
