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Innovative investment mechanisms and sharply falling manufacturing and installation costs of renewable energy technologies, including wind, advanced biomass, and solar power, are essential to unlocking the continent’s potential.
In parts of Africa, sustainably developed biomass could provide fuels to assist in meeting growing demand for transportation fuels.
Energy producers also started to use large quantities of CO2-neutral biomass on power plants.
The target is to be achieved through expanding wind power and by replacing coal with biomass on power plants.
In agriculture and forestry the energy company can find different types of biomass that can be used in energy production.
In transportation the energy company can combine enzymes with biomass and produce a carbon-neutral alternative to oil.
Japan and South Korea were third in the amount of grid-connected solar photovoltaic panels added in 2008; the Philippines was second for total geothermal power and third for total biomass power;Indonesia was third for total geothermal power.
The combustion of fossil fuels, wood, and other biomass increases the amount of airborne particles, which, in a somewhat simplified manner, we can describe as “white” or “black.”
Almost four in five Africans rely for cooking on solid biomass, mainly wood and charcoal.
Likewise, more nitrogen fertilizer is applied in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems, and nitric-oxide production from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass also surpasses natural emissions.
But the West uses the other 40% of biomass to produce heat, and it will increasingly use it to generate electricity.
Environmentalists’ plan to obtain 20-50% of all energy from biomass could mean a tripling of current biomass consumption, placing its production in direct competition with that of food for a growing global population, while depleting water supplies, cutting down forests, and reducing biodiversity.
An academic paper published last year makes the point clear in its title: “Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral.”
The developed world’s re-enchantment with biomass could take it down a similar road.
But the biggest problem is that biomass production simply pushes other agricultural production elsewhere.
This is the amount that proud green-energy producers will showcase when switching to biomass.
Clearing the existing biomass there emits an extra 16 tons of CO2 per year on average (and this is likely an underestimate).
At the same time, we are paying a king’s ransom for biomass.
We need to confront the next – and potentially much bigger – biomass boondoggle.
BECCS entails planting a huge amount of grass and trees, burning the biomass to generate electricity, capturing the CO2 that is emitted, and pumping it into geological reservoirs underground.
We need a dramatic increase in funding for research and development to make the next generations of wind, solar, and biomass energy cheaper and more effective.
Global renewables-based electricity generation (mainly hydro and wind, but also solar and biomass) is set to double between 2006 and 2030.
The Hartwell group proposes that we adopt three basic climate-related goals: ensuring secure, affordable energy supplies for everyone (which means developing alternatives to fossil fuels); ensuring that economic development doesn’t wreak environmental havoc (which means not just reducing CO2 emissions, but also cutting indoor pollution from burning biomass, reducing ozone, and protecting tropical forests); and making sure that we are prepared to cope with whatever climate changes may occur, man-made or natural (which means recognizing, at last, the importance of adapting to climate change).
Plants, for example, interact with their environment to produce locally ordered systems, resulting in the creation of wood (and other biomass).
Consider the fact that 97% of China’s energy comes from fossil fuels and burning waste and biomass.
And 60% of the total deaths reflect the burning of biomass (such as animal dung and crop residues) for cooking and heating, which has no relation to either fossil fuels or global warming.
Renewable energy overwhelmingly comes from often-unsustainable burning of wood and biomass by people in the Third World.
Low-carbon primary energy means three options: renewable energy, including wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower, and biomass; nuclear energy; and carbon capture and sequestration, which means using fossil fuels to create energy, but trapping the CO2 emissions that result and storing the carbon safely underground.
Gas generates ten times less carbon than biomass or ethanol, which ecologists so heavily promote.
Making matters worse, cities tend to have higher rates of air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM) resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, which contributes to up to three million deaths every year.
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