Plans for a biomass power station at Southampton docks have been delayed for a second time.
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Getting that switchgrass or other biomass to the refinery will be expensive and difficult.
There is also no leftover biomass, as everything is converted into one product or another.
The water footprint of biomass incinerators for cooling has also been a concern of activists.
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The efficiency is on a comparable level with real plants used for biomass energy.
The efficiency is of a comparable level to real plants used in the biomass energy source.
All of this global business is driven by the presumption that biomass is carbon neutral.
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Oregon, another forested state, has also made biomass a cornerstone of its renewable energy policy.
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Typical utility-scale biomass power plants burn 300, 000 to 800, 000 tons of wood a year.
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Plans for a biomass composting plant on an old aerodrome site in Sheffield have been rejected.
And methane can be made from any type of biomass at all, including sewage and landfills.
But some utilities are reinventing their existing coal facilities so that they can simultaneously burn biomass.
Percival Zhang at Virginia Tech is looking at ways to produce hydrogen gas from biomass.
Economic activities depend on access to ecological resources including water, biomass and fossil fuels.
The resulting biomass supplies will encourage the development of new biomass uses and markets.
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Mr Russell made the announcement in Dumfries as he launched Scotland's first NHS hospital biomass boiler.
The biomass boiler will provide heat to both the Crichton Royal Hospital and Dumfries Infirmary.
At Virginia Tech, Zhang has been researching ways to use enzymes to extract hydrogen from plant biomass.
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The syndicate will primarily support investments in solar, energy efficiency, green chemistry, water, wind, biomass and geothermal.
While wind and solar sites may seem fairly obvious to most people, biomass and geothermal probably don't.
Also, Foster Wheeler builds power plant boilers that can be used to burn biomass as well as coal.
It recently won a contract to build the world's biggest biomass-only power plant, a 190-megawatt station in Poland.
Solyzyme will be producing biodiesel and aviation fuels using a cyanobacterial process to convert waste biomass into diesel.
Biomass plays a key role today with 7, 000 megawatts of installed capacity, says the U.S. Department of Energy.
Major infrastructure projects onshore between 50MW and 100MW include onshore windfarms, biomass plants and energy from waste plants.
The government announced the levels of subsidies it was prepared to offer to biomass users in July 2013.
Edge Renewables is already using Wenlock Edge quarry to chip wood from forests for renewable energy biomass incinerators.
Centrica has already announced proposals to demolish the Roosecote station and replace it with a larger biomass facility.
Biomass power plants are the government's favourite renewable, but environmentalists now criticise them for their effect on biodiversity.
So while gas is hyped solar, wind, water, geothermal and biomass are making up more of new capacity.
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