Sentences with phrase «calls wood biomass»

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The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

The American Lung Association calls for effective enforcement of existing laws and regulations governing the combustion of wood and other biomass sources, as well as the expanded regulation of air pollution emissions from these sources.

And closer study of biomass burning is calling into question the «carbon - neutral» assumption: that growing wood or other biomass captures the same amount of CO2 that subsequent burning for electricity generation releases.

Faced with the need to find an energy source sufficiently dense to fit on site, developers have turned en masse to wood (or biomass as they prefer to call it).

The study analyzed so - called stationary bioenergy systems based on heat from wood - burning stoves and from wood biomass - based district heating.