Essentially, a decomposing landfill of waste or garbage, that gives off heat. This heat energy can be used to heat buildings or create electricity.
Biomass energy is energy that comes from bio-type products. Biomass energy can include vegetable oil and other bio feedstocks that produce bio-oil.
The energy embodied in organic matter (“biomass”) that is released when chemical bonds are broken by microbial digestion, combustion, or decomposition. For purposes of Section 10r(3)(a) of Act 141, biomass energy is produced from dedicated crops grown for energy production or through the use of organic waste.
energy produced by combusting biomass materials such as wood. The carbon dioxide emitted from burning biomass will not increase total atmospheric carbon dioxide if this consumption is done on a sustainable basis (i.e., if in a given period of time, regrowth of biomass takes up as much carbon dioxide as is released from biomass combustion). Biomass energy is often suggested as a replacement for fossil fuel combustion.
Changing farming wastes, grasses, trees, bark, sawdust, and other things into energy by burning it, changing it to a gas, or converting it to a liquid fuel.
Energy derived from wood, wood wastes, other organic wastes, landfill gas, and animal and human wastes.
Waste heat harnessed by waste-to-energy plants for generating electricity or heating buildings. Among energy sources referred to as biofuels is garbage. About 15% of municipal solid waste, is burned.
Energy produced by the conversion of biomass directly to heat or to a liquid or gas that can be converted to energy.
renewable source of energy that has been stored in plant and animal material. Examples are: wood, bark, sawdust, grasses, farm wastes, compost, ethanol from corn, methane from landfills.
energy produced by the combustion of plants, vegetation or agricultural waste – for example, rice husks.
Biomass energy generated from organic waste matter such as sawmill wood waste or crop waste.