The Future Is Now When It Comes To Bio-energy
- Date: 2008-10-07 - Word Count: 352
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A tremendous opportunity looms in America when it comes to using domestic and sustainable resources to provide fuel, power, and chemical needs from plants and plant derived materials.
We, as a country have to develope programs and improve technology for biomass energy. This technology will enable us in making biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, also making plastics and chemicals from renewable biobased materials.
Bioenergy ranks second to hydropower in renewable energy production and accounts for 3% of the energy production in the U.S.
These new technologies will produce many different types of energy related products including, electricity, liquid, solid, and gaseous fuels, heat, and other materials.
Biomass means any plant derived organic matter available on a renewable basis. This may include energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crops, agricultural crop wastes and residues, wood waste, aquatic plants, animal wastes, municipal wastes and many other waste materials.
Today, more than half the electricity produced in the U.S. is coal generated, and no time soon will coal be replaced with other generating methods. Coal is plentiful and continues being the cheapest way to produce electricity.
The government continues working on ways to keep coal as a power generating source in our future. New technologies being developed will someday, eliminate sulfur, mercury, and nitrogen pollutants being release when coal is burned. Also with a little luck technology will be able to contain greenhouse gases, which is contributing to global warming.
Research is being done to learn ways on being able to get more energy from our coal fuel power plants. Hopefully within 10-15 years it is hoped we can double our efficiency of coal fuel power plants.
More than 90% of the power plants going online will be fueled by natural gas in the next 20 years. Natural gas powered fuel cells are being developed for future distributed generation applications.
Today, more than 85% of all the energy consumed in the U.S. come from fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas. The sad part is over the next 20 years or so our reliance on fossil fuels will possibly increase, even with the aggressive development of new renewable and alternative technologies.
We, as a country have to develope programs and improve technology for biomass energy. This technology will enable us in making biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, also making plastics and chemicals from renewable biobased materials.
Bioenergy ranks second to hydropower in renewable energy production and accounts for 3% of the energy production in the U.S.
These new technologies will produce many different types of energy related products including, electricity, liquid, solid, and gaseous fuels, heat, and other materials.
Biomass means any plant derived organic matter available on a renewable basis. This may include energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crops, agricultural crop wastes and residues, wood waste, aquatic plants, animal wastes, municipal wastes and many other waste materials.
Today, more than half the electricity produced in the U.S. is coal generated, and no time soon will coal be replaced with other generating methods. Coal is plentiful and continues being the cheapest way to produce electricity.
The government continues working on ways to keep coal as a power generating source in our future. New technologies being developed will someday, eliminate sulfur, mercury, and nitrogen pollutants being release when coal is burned. Also with a little luck technology will be able to contain greenhouse gases, which is contributing to global warming.
Research is being done to learn ways on being able to get more energy from our coal fuel power plants. Hopefully within 10-15 years it is hoped we can double our efficiency of coal fuel power plants.
More than 90% of the power plants going online will be fueled by natural gas in the next 20 years. Natural gas powered fuel cells are being developed for future distributed generation applications.
Today, more than 85% of all the energy consumed in the U.S. come from fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas. The sad part is over the next 20 years or so our reliance on fossil fuels will possibly increase, even with the aggressive development of new renewable and alternative technologies.
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