Not exact matches
The coal
waste contains chemical elements that can be ionised by the biofertiliser, making nutrients which are essential to growth
available for uptake by the
plants.
It centres on a computer model they developed to compare the carbon emissions that would be saved by converting the world's
available supplies of
plant waste into either biofuel or biochar.
The amount of biomass
available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible
plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood
waste, agricultural
waste, and energy crops.
And as this friend pointed out — it would be nice to think that once each
waste - to - energy anaerobic digestion
plant has used up the readily
available stream of
waste, the operator will open up another
plant elsewhere to use
waste there too.
The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood
wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol
plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.
Instead, they make use only of the
plant waste, leaving the rest of the crop
available for consumption as food or other uses.