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We know it's a lot, but we do not yet know the answers to how much, and by what processes, carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere, held in its biomass, and moving on through the ecosystem.
We were taking their biomass, storing them in the basement, growing plants, going around, around, around, trying to take all of that carbon out of the atmosphere.
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
The plant biomass, the phytoplankton, the zooplankton, it's what feeds the fish.
There's that much more biomass.
This is what we call the biomass pyramid.
Most of the biomass is low on the food chain, the herbivores, the parrotfish, the surgeonfish that eat the algae.
And then we have a lower biomass of carnivores, and a lower biomass of top head, or the sharks, the large snappers, the large groupers.
The top head does account for most of the biomass, in some places up to 85 percent, like Kingman Reef, which is now protected.
We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.
Then you go to Palmyra Atoll that has more biomass of herbivores, and the dead corals are clean, and the corals are coming back.
In some places up to 10 times larger biomass inside the reserves.
And if we think about the increase of biomass inside the reserves, this is like compound interest.
First of all, your pyramid, your inverted pyramid, showing 85 percent biomass in the predators, that seems impossible.
They reproduce very slowly; they have a slow metabolism; and, basically, they just maintain their biomass.
So, basically, the production surplus of these guys down there is enough to maintain this biomass that is not moving.
Some people have estimated that the biomass tied up in these microbes living in the pours and the cracks of the sea floor and below rival the total amount of living biomass at the surface of the planet.
That's 200 times more than the total biomass of humans on this planet.
As a result, most Africans use biomass (animal and vegetable wastes and firewood) for lighting, cooking, and heating.
Replacing biomass sources by less destructive energy supplies has thus become increasingly urgent.
Last year, developing countries accounted for 48.8% of global investment in wind, solar, biofuels, biomass and waste, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower – an increase of nearly 30% since 2004.
The substitution of forests by maize, rape, and other oilseed cultivation reduces the stock of biomass and likewise leads to an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
An even greater number use biomass for cooking, with over 90% of people in rural Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique using straw, dung, and firewood.
Rather, policymakers should figure out how much renewable energy is worth to society (possibly attributing a different value to solar, wind, geothermal and biomass) and make utilities or governments pay extra for it.
For example, we will double the installed capacity of wind energy and expand our biomass exchange this year.
Some governments and companies have been persuaded that “bio-plastics” – which are derived partly from biomass like cornstarch – are the solution.
And India has become a leader in converting biomass and food waste into energy.
Indeed, krill form the largest known aggregation of marine life, with a biomass perhaps greater than any other multi-cellular animal organism on the planet.
After the oil glut, with oil below $20 a barrel, interest in developing energy from biomass ebbed, attractive only to “green” militants and those interested in fundamental science.
Considered the “energy of the poor” until today, biomass could become a source of wealth if it is grown and harnessed with the support of the international community.
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