Clean energy from re-growing resources and waste. Biomass sounds like a perfect alternative power source. Globally, at least 5% of energy come from biomass. But what does it mean if we use organic matter for fuel or electricity?

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Reporter: Nicole Ris
Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörer & Joanna Gottschalk

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read More:
Land competition between fuel and food: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303133614.htm

Biomass industry threatens European forests: https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/Up%20in%20Flames.pdf

Quantifying biomass-related forest growth: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ab7ff3

Total methane emission rates and losses from 23 biogas plants: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31447025/

A global renewable energy status report (2020): https://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gsr_2020_key_findings_en.pdf

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Anaerobic Digestion
03:10 Biofuels
05:00 Traditional Use of Biomass
05:30 Wood Pellets
09:55 Conclusion
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“Wood is one of the few energy sources that emits more carbon than coal.” Burning biomass allowed civilization to evolve and advance in remarkable ways, but smoke that comes as a byproduct is carbon-heavy and kills around 2 million people per year.

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