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Utilizing Biomass Energy
Bioenergy
Biomass energy is sometimes called Bioenergy and is a form of creating energy using biodegradable means; some examples are rubbish at landfills, waste from farms such as manure or plant extras, and other organic materials that would otherwise be discarded.
Biomass energy is often created by burning these biodegradable materials or capturing their gasses to burn; both methods use the flames to boil water, which in turn pushes a turbine, which creates the electricity.
What makes biomass energy unique to current fossil fuel dependent energy is that biomass energy is completely renewable and most forms are completely clean or leave no harmful byproducts from their use. The gasses created which are burned can still contain carbon dioxide, but because the carbon dioxide is from plants still alive today, the impact to the atmosphere seems to be much less as the atmosphere is acclimated to it.
Many waste treatment plants and landfills are utilizing biomass energy to make their cities cleaner and provide power to more people.
Because of Biomass technology, landfills can be transformed into recycling centers and power plants; some of these sites even utilize some of the available energy to create additional products such as fruits, vegetables, or fish to make additional profits; all of these things being used together will reduce energy costs for the consumer while reducing pollution.
Landfills create usable biomass energy in two ways, one way is to bury organic waste in separate pockets which induce decomposition and from this point the organic waste will produce methane gas. The methane gas is then piped into a central station where it can be harnessed and stored.
The other way to use landfills to create usable biomass energy is to actually burn the garbage, use that heat to boil the water for steam to create the needed electricity; the burning can be done in isolated chambers to reduce the pollutants ultimately released into the atmosphere.
Waste treatment plants are able to pump the waste into isolated chambers which support decomposition of the waste. Because the waste is trapped, the methane gas that is produced can be trapped and safely piped to a point that it can be used responsibly creating as little pollution as possible.
This biomass energy source serves two purposes, the first is the production of electricity, the second is keeping the methane out of the atmosphere; methane gas is a very harmful greenhouse gas, which in combination with carbon dioxide diminishes air quality and contributes to the destruction of the ozone layer.
Biomass energy is a wonderful technology allowing people to enjoy all the benefits of modern living responsibly. The lives we live have lots of byproducts including human waste, garbage, animal waste, production leftovers and more; with the use of biomass energy technologies people can use these waste products to create electricity instead of further polluting the planet.
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