Sentences with phrase «when plant biomass»
Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels like ethanol.
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When they tested how well plants grew in the different soils, they found that plants grown in the torrefied biomass had thicker stems, much longer roots, and were heavier that those grown in the untreated soil.
This study showed the timing of when faba was planted had a dramatic effect on the biomass — the total weight — the plants produced before winter weather stopped growth.
I mean when you look at the biomass of livestock, you know, what's the biggest thing in the plant world?
It also emits more CO2 than coal plants and to this writer it seems strange that the UK will look to North and South America to supply them with biomass fuel that requires processing and shipment thousands of miles, when they (Drax) could use locally mined coal to generate power.
How would you propose to transport biomass between generating plants during periods when one region has crop failures and they need the biomass to be shipped in from other regions to keep the plant running?
Far easier to get some progress on cleaning up residential biomass, residential coal, «back yard» coal industries in China, India and elsewhere, than to stop China and India from building more coal fired power plants when they need more power to provide jobs, industry, and taxes.
It becomes an integrated CCGT when the fuel is syngas from a coal or biomass gasification reactor with exchange of energy flows between the gasification and CCGT plants.
With other waste - to - energy plants competing for feedstocks, a shift to more sustainable agriculture requiring more biomass returned to the soil, and (yeah, I am an optimist) an increasing realization that we can't keep wasting food anyway, there will inevitably come a time when organic «waste» will be seen as an expensive, valuable resource.
«When you hear about biomass, you usually hear only about switchgrass, but we're looking at using prairie plants including wildflowers,» said Dave Williams, manager of TPC's Prairie Institute.
Biomass means living creatures, plants and microbes and animals, and the organic materials that are left behind when the creatures die and decay.
recently reported on some organization starting to build a combined power plant using wind (when available) and biomass when there is no wind.