Sentences with phrase «other biomass heated»

TURN IT INTO CHARCOAL Wood or other biomass heated slowly in a chamber without oxygen will transform into charcoal that does not decompose for thousands of years.

Not exact matches

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Notably, the plans include replacing coal heating with biomass and other heat sources.

Biomass heating systems generate heat from plant and other organic materials and residues.

The American Lung Association recognizes that pollution from the combustion of wood and other biomass sources poses a significant threat to human health, and supports measures to transition away from using these products for heat production.

The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.

Some sources of heat are inexpensive on running cost (solid fuel, wood or coal boilers), others work silently (electric, gas / oil boilers) and some are more environmentally friendly (biomass boilers).

The push for bioenergy extends beyond transportation fuels to the harvest of trees and other sources of biomass for electricity and heat generation.

On other hand burning biomass directly for power or heat generation could be much more efficient business.

More recently, scientists have been surprised to learn that black carbon — not only from biomass fires but from dirty diesel engines and other sources — is a far larger contributor to global warming than previously suspected: The dark particles absorb and retain heat close to the Earth's surface that might otherwise be reflected.

Grants to improve the commercial value of forest biomass for electric energy, useful heat, transportation fuels, and other commercial purposes, section 210 of EPAct2005, 3 percent

The «other» category contains (relatively) small electricity - producing resources such as tires and waste heat, as well as net capacity changes for hydroelectric and biomass energy resources.

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

Coupled with other low - tech solutions such as thermal underwear, heated clothing and tile stoves, passive solar design could all but eliminate the use of fossil fuels and biomass for heating buildings throughout large parts of the world.

Almost two out of every five rely on wood or other biomass for cooking or heating.

Other important sectors included solar thermal - using the sun to heat water - and solid biomass.

The measure directs how a unit's overall efficiency shall be determined on the basis of outputs of electrical generation and useful thermal energy output, which is defined in the bill as (i) including direct heat and other valid thermal end - use energy requirements for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed and (ii) excluding thermal energy used for the purpose of drying or refining biomass fuel.

However, the project has had the knock on effect of encouraging other local institutions to consider biomass heating: