BY GRANT AND JAMES AND STEVEN

Information from:

http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_biomass.html

BIO-MASS

What is Bio-mass?

Bio-mass is dead organisms that are burned for fuel.

facts: wood is the best source for bio-mass fuel.

Other sources, grass, food crops, wood and also fumes from land fills can even be a source of bio-mass.

Benefits.

Bio-mass can be used to make products that would have been made with fossil fuels.

Bio-mass reduces green house gases. Bio-mass uses stuff that couldn’t of had

been used before. Burning bio-mass can releases the

same amount of carbon dioxide as fossil fuels.

Can anybody use it? Yes, almost everybody can use Bio-mass because a lot of

people and dead organisms in there every day life. http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=biomass_home-basics

How does it work?

It works by finding dead plants, garbage, alcohol fuels, wood, crops, and landfill gasses.

Waste records

A person in the 1960 produces' 2.7 pounds of trash a day.

Now people produce about 4.5 pounds now.

Cheap or Expensive?

Using new technology, people have figured out that it costs about 5.2 to 6.7 cents in kilowatt-hours.

Is it hard to collect?

No, it is not hard to collect because all you need around you is wood or dead crops or even trash which is almost always around.(and other resources.)

Where does it come from? It comes mostly from tree populated

areas and human populated areas which produces trash and also crops on farm lands also gasses from landfills and cars.

Is it hard to find?

No, because trash and wood are highly used for burning as well as cars and burning gasses. But in areas it can be hard to find because some places have don’t have lots of wood and don’t have many cars.

Resources http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01335/biomass.htm http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_biomass.html

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/renewables/biomass/index.html http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=biomass_home-basics

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01335/biomass.htm

Mr.Levitt (our teacher)