Alternative Energy Resource: Biomass

Biomass is a biological substance derived from a biological or recent organism. In the context of biomass for energy, this is often used to represent plant-based materials, but biomass can also be applied to animals and plant-derived materials. Biomass is considered one of the important renewable resources in the future at small and large scale levels. We already supply 14% of the world's primary energy consumption. An increase in biomass is a rural labor-intensive activity that helps to create jobs in rural areas and to prevent migration from rural areas to cities.

Renewable energy is the energy generated by natural resources such as sunlight, wind power, and biomass fermentation. These alternative energy sources do not harm the environment or exhaust natural resources. In fact, these available energy sources come from their ability to replenish their own energy, so they are depicted as infinite energy. Renewable energy is also regarded as clean or green as it does not produce pollutants or toxins harmful to the environment. The main obstacle to the use and management of wind energy is the flaw in the current transmission system that distributes power from the best resource site in the isolated area to the location used in the metropolitan area. In the case of solar energy, it is very difficult to capture sunlight over a wide range. In addition, the energy of certain places changes depending on the weather and cloud conditions.

Alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass are sustainable ways to produce power companies. Alternative energy sources do not consume the natural resources of the earth (like traditional energy sources) and do not harm the environment. More and more companies are choosing more environmentally friendly facilities. This is due to the increased availability of alternative energy sources and the economic benefits they bring. Over the past few years, the choice of solar and wind energy has dramatically increased and more and more companies across the country are able to get clean energy. In 2015, wind energy accounted for 35% of new energy and solar energy accounted for 29.5%. Both exceed the new gas, accounting for only 25% of the market. Continued research and cost savings at these two energy companies make such investments in energy sources a reasonable economic and environmental decision

Biomass is one of the most promising, most abundant, most utilized renewable energy sources in the United States. Alternative energy is a new concept, but biomass energy has existed for thousands of years. Biomass means any organic material that can be used to generate energy. Trees, grasslands, buried waste and animal waste can be used to generate this energy. Biomass obtains energy by photosynthesis of light and stores it as energy. Approximately 3% to 4% of US energy comes from biomass (Marc Lallanilla, p. 1). Biomass can be directly converted into heat by burning, such as burning timber in a fireplace. Biomass can also be converted to fuel sources such as ethanol gasoline made from corn and methane gas made from animal waste (Marc Lallanilla, p. 1).