Critical biomass

摘要

A report released by the Environment Agency has highlighted how biomass energy could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.rnBiomass - carbon sink or carbon sinner? concludes that using energy crops or waste materials as fuel for generating electricity and heat could play an important role in meeting the UK's renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.rnBut action is needed to make sure that techniques such as anaerobic digestion and wood chip boilers are genuinely low carbon. Best practice can deliver up to 98% carbon savings over coal, but in the worst cases, biomass generation actually emits more greenhouse gases than burning gas.