1. Biomass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biomass, a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, (hydrogen) gas, and alcohol fuels.
2. EIA Energy Kids - Biomass
Biomass is organic material made from plants and animals (microorganisms). Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb the sun's energy in a process called ...
3. NREL: Learning - Biomass Energy Basics
We have used biomass energy, or "bioenergy"—the energy from plants and plant-derived materials—since people began burning wood to cook food and keep warm.
4. NREL: Biomass Research Home Page
Working to develop cost effective, environmentally friendly biomass conversion technologies to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, improve our air quality, and ...
5. Biomass - Energy and Environmental Affairs
Biomass includes a variety of versatile renewable fuel sources derived from organic plant and animal material, such as wood, crops, landfill gas, solid waste, and alcohol fuels.
6. biomass: Definition from Answers.com
biomass ( ) n. The total mass of living matter within a given unit of environmental area. Plant material, vegetation, or agricultural waste used as a
7. EERE: Biomass Program Home Page
Biomass is a clean, renewable energy source that can help to significantly diversify transportation fuels in the United States. The Biomass Program is helping transform the ...
8. How Biomass Energy Works | Union of Concerned Scientists
How biomass energy works. Renewable energy technologies tap into natural cycles and systems, turning the energy all around us into usable forms. Wind, solar, geothermal ...
9. Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory > Home
The BCRL at Michigan State University seeks to develop cost effective and environmentally attractive means of generating fuels, chemicals, materials, foods and feeds from ...
