The advantages of biomass  

In a few decades the fossil energy sources like oil and coal we use nowadays will be exhausted.
To avoid this we either must change our lifestyle and the habit of wasting energy or we have to find other ways to get energy without exploiting the earth.
One way of doing this is getting energy from biomass with the following advantages.

• Biomass is very abundant. It can be found on every square meter of the earth as seaweed, trees or dung.
  




• It is easy to convert to a high energy portable fuel such as alcohol or gas.
  




• It is cheap in contrast to the other energy sources.
  




• Biomass production can often mean the restauration of waste land (e.g. deforested areas).
  




• It may also use areas of unused agricultural land and provide jobs in rural communities.
  




• If it is produced on a renewable basis using biomass energy does not result in a net cabon dioxide increase as plants absorb it when they grow.
  




• It is very low in sulphur reducing the production of acid rain.