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04/02/2008 5:42 PM

where dose biomass energy come from?

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04/02/2008 7:03 PM

From the sun. It is really a form of solar energy...

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04/02/2008 11:18 PM

OK Steve, it's not April 1st any more.

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04/03/2008 8:30 AM

Not an april fools joke at all...I was completely serious...

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04/03/2008 12:37 PM

I thought biomass was anything derived from grown things. I guess that, going back one step further, solar energy is necessary for plant growth. In that case, I agree with you - I just didn't go back far enough.

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04/03/2008 12:51 PM

Exactly! A plant takes CO2 out of the air, water and other minerals out of the soil, and through photosynthesis, uses the energy of sunlight to build cells and stems and stalks. The by product of the reaction is O2 that is released back to the atmosphere.

Essential what the plant is doing is converting (kind of kinetic) energy from the sun to potential energy stored up in the plant as carbon chains and sugars. Bio mass processes simply release that energy, in a simple manner such as burning wood, or in as complex a manner as converting complex carbon chains from plants into biodiesel.

But really oil and gas are the same deal. Plants (or mostly plankton in the oceans) converted solar to potential energy stored in carbon chains, over time that material was covered and compressed by the over bearing rock, until someone with a long drill pulled it out of the ground and converted it to gasoline.

Every bit of carbon that has been released by man burning various fuels was in the ocean or in the atmosphere at one point in time, it had just been sequestered in plant material that became oil or coal.

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04/02/2008 7:40 PM

Carbon.

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04/02/2008 9:25 PM

errr, I believe he is talking about the methane emitted by the end product of animal digestion

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04/02/2008 11:19 PM

Both answers 1 & 2 are correct. Plants extract carbon from atmospheric CO2, then convert it into biomass through the process of photosynthesis using energy from the sun.

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04/02/2008 11:55 PM

I was thinking of that project where they are collecting dog poo at parks, and harvesting the methane....hasn't that been tagged biomass?

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04/07/2008 6:35 PM

Like Steve said the Sun. The compounds the life form creates fats oils and sugars from the nutrients it takes in are just storage vessels for it.

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