Biomass is considered a renewable organic material that can be burned for energy. However, this is not always true. Quality wood pellets with low moisture content have about half the energy content of an equivalent amount of coal (by mass). Biomass power plants also emit 50 to 85 percent more carbon dioxide than modern coal power plants and three times more carbon dioxide than natural gas powered power plants. course.
Heartland’s Linnea Lueken breaks down the details behind this biomass as an energy source in the latest episode of Discover Energy.
For more details and all the sources used in this video, please check out Linnea’s Energy at a glance series:
Energy at a glance: Biomass – https://www.heartland.org/publication…
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