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1. Biomass fuels "recycle" atmospheric carbon, this minimizes global warming impacts since zero "net" carbon dioxide is emitted during biomass combustion. When the biomass is grown; more carbon dioxide is absorbed than when the biomass is combusted. Biomass energy is completely renewable and can save up to 50% of your heating bills and will also improve your energy rateing. Fuel can be produced useing plant waste and grains that would otherwise go unused. Many of these grains and plants can be replaced the very next growing season. Solid biomass energy is a natural energy which can be harnessed to produce a tremendous amount of power. Biomass recycles itself; as it is burned the solar energy within its mass returns to the atmosphere. As a result, the energy produced from the biomass into the atmosphere is sent back to the earth with new solar rays and the process begins again.

2. There is a large potential supply of solid biomass. The fuel can be used in many forms, such as biodiesel to fuel diesel vehicles and heat to heat water and drive turbines. Biomass can have a large potential supply because it can come in many forms. It can come in forms of waste and crude vegetable and animal oil. Fats, sugar cane residue, wheat chaff, corn cobs and other plant matter can also be used as solid biomass. Biomass can be defined as any recently living organisms or their metabolic by-products, such as manure from cow. Organic waste in the form of dead trees, leaves, grass clippings, animal carcasses and byproducts from food processing exists in abundance and can be used to produce biomass energy. The U.S. has 3,091 active landfills and over 10,000 old municipal landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The large amounts of solid waste that is currently just dumped into landfills can be used as a source of energy.

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1. Solid biomass is a big pollutant, most solid biomass fuels are burned in factories and power plants. The solid bio fuels burned without filters or water spray scrubbers release pollutants into the atmosphere. Heavy polluted areas or if used inside can cause lung cancer if it is inhaled to much. This also provideds some of the most polluted cities in the world, and this uncontrollable pollutant can also be traced to contributing to deforestation and woodland capacity. Biomass contians sulfur, which contributes to acid rain. So while this biofuel may offer us a alternative oil it also comes with a cost enviormental and financial.

2. Compared to fossil fuels, biomass energy is quite expensive. This is primarily because a lot of research still remains to be done, methods of extraction have to be refined, and biological matter for the biomass has to be consolidated. As progression is made in these areas, the cost of biomass energy will automatically come down. But in many places the cost will not drop and this will end in lot of money being spent on biomass. Some facts about the cost are, operating costs of about $.52/gallon, corn costs of about $.53/gallon, and capital recovery costs of $.12 to $.14/gallon. This ends up with about a total of $1.16/gallon to $1.18/gallon.

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