Renewable Energy 101: How Does Biomass Energy Work?
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The great thing about biomass energy (or simply “bioenergy”) is that its sources are plant and animal waste. So not only does biomass energy divert this organic matter from the waste stream - it turns it into something we all need, without polluting the planet. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, by 2030, the U.S. has the potential to sustainably produce 1 billion tons of bioenergy each year. As far as renewable energy sources go, biomass is not the most glamorous. But, biomass energy successfully solves two major environmental problems at once - an incredible feat if there ever was one!
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Renewable Energy 101
Biomass … the original renewable energy. It's been part of our lives since our ancestors learned to control fire. In fact, it's made possible by the sun, whose energy is absorbed by trees and plants through photosynthesis and then released when organic matter is burned or decomposes.
First, there's plant waste. Wood scraps, sawdust and crop waste can be collected from farms or manufacturers. The waste is burned to heat water. The hot water creates steam. The pressure of the steam spins a turbine. The turbine powers a generator. The generator creates electricity. Simple, really!
Next up: animal waste … also known as “the problem of cow poop.” The solution? Waste from farm animals can be collected in a large tank, called a digester, filled with bacteria that eats the waste and converts it to methane gas. The methane is captured and burned to heat water and create steam. Sound familiar? Second verse, same as the first.
This same principle can also be used to capture methane - a potent greenhouse gas with 25 times the heat-trapping ability of carbon dioxide - from landfills. Once a section of the landfill is closed off, pipes are run from the waste to collect the gas, which can then be burned to make electricity or heat. Biomass may not be the prettiest form of renewable energy, and it needs to be used carefully and thoughtfully to protect the ecosystems that prevent greenhouse gas emissions, but it can be a smart way to make use of waste. Power to the poop!
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Simple video but it's packed with loads of information! Thanks ❤️
Too bad it isn't true... In reality, they mow down forests and truck the trees to the biomass generation plant, burning 30 tons of trees a day... No wonder our lumber prices have gone through the roof. Trees are a great way to sequester carbon since they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen back to the air. This is perfect, right up until you burn the tree, and BOOM, all that carbon is released back into the environment. How is this clean energy? Lies, lies and more lies.
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Second verse same as the first crasks me up every time I watch this video with my classes! Thanks for such a great resource!
Thank you sm, I'm writing a test tomorrow ❤️🙏🏾😭!!!!!
this is simple yet awesome (powerful knowledge)! thanks creator of video and the people who posted it! May God bless you!
While it is certainly a method to produce electricity by not letting matter go to waste, it is not as clean and innocent as people think. Simply because burning something always causes pollution to some extent. Furthermore the potency (amount of MegaWatts) that can be produced this way is much less than ordinary methods. On top of that, the mass isn't always "waste", healthy trees get chopped down to supply these biomass plants as well.
100% true! This is totally oversimplified!!! This shows NO release of the toxins that are WORSE than burning coal!
@@spectralboogie462 its net neutral....
I totally agree with you , but the main intension of this video is generating an electricity in one another possible way 👍.
They are sustainable methods,
The trees naturally give off their dead wood annually. A full gown tree at 20 years consumes 1100 pounds of co2 per year. From age 20-70 that's 1100 pounds per year. And every year they shed dead wood limbs that are not needed. Each tree species is slightly different actually.
The dead wood and brush on the forest floor use to be better managed to prevent forest fires. In recent year's we have watch the finding go to other places. Each year's the forest floor get worse and worse. Tinder piles reach pyrolysis in the driest months of the summer and spontaneously combust.
If we could organize sustainable maintenance and burn in EPA approved systems there is little to no biproducts going into the air.
The system know how triple phase combustion technology. The fine particulate that you normally see coming from a smoke stack is no more. The particulates are re-burned first through smoke tubes and then a catalytic device. You are able to harness the energy from the sun and filter out the particulate matter. The neighbors can tell I heat my home with wood. You can see smoke come out of my chimney, it looks just like a gas vent.
Thank you 🙏🏻 I can finally finish my project
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u know that he is my science teacher
Hey Ichikko presents can you share some details of your project i want some guidance regarding my project on biomass Energy
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Thank you so much for this, i'm doing a presentation on biomass and didn't know much about it, this helps a lot!
great explaination in short period of time excellent...................
thank you, this helps me a lot for my homework. yes no detention
Hi I had a powerpoint to do on Biomass and I really didn't understand what it was. I'm really glad I found this video because it really helped me out!
Can i have the powerpoint XD
Yes , POWER TO THE POOP 😂😂😂 ( I have an exam tomorrow and it is about renewable energy biomass included and I will write “ power to the poop” in the exam )
haha! power to the poop
POOP FUNNY 🤣🤣🤣💩💩 POO POWER 💩✊
haha! power to the poop 👽
My dad walked in right when they said that (out of context of course).
Power to the poop. 😎
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Great video - thanks:)
this vid helps alot
Anyone else forced to watch this by their science or ELA teacher?
you have cool videos i learn a lot
Wow tnx u explained it in 1 min my teacher explained it 4 1 week and I didn't get it
Good information
Used this for my school project and it helped me get an A :)))
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You should have gotten a D-
I got a fu**ing f- my mom is going to kill me
Thanks a lot
Thank you you helped me with my group project with my friends
Please.could you inform me if there is cheap environmental friendly technology to burn bunch of coconut shells to have charcoal for preparation to next step to be activated carbon? Where i can contact to, i prefer germany or europe technology. Thank you.
Wow your explanation was awesome
But please reduce the speed of your explanation
Awesome marvelous fabulous well under stood waiting for more videos
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this really helped me
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How about storing energy from Biomass to a battery like a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-sulfur battery or even a battery from Biomass?
By the definition of biomass energy given in this video, doesn't this include FOSSIL FUELS? Oil, coal and gas were once living matter that captured CO2 from the atmosphere. The only difference is that it happened much longer ago, and so this biomass has had more time (and physical pressure under which it was trapped) to change into the various forms that are demonised (by some people, at least) today. Or am I missing something?
I know it's been a year but I can kinda answer this lol. You got the main difference, it's not what biomass vs fossil fuels are made out of but how they are made. Fossil fuels take thousands of years to form under heat and pressure and is not considered renewable because we are using it at a faster rate than it can be replenished. Whereas biomass is our current organic waste as is and since everyone produces some form of waste it is considered renewable because it can be replenished at a rate faster than what we are using it as.
the key difference between fossil fuels and biomass burning is that by using biomass, we are not releasing dormant carbon back into the carbon cycle.
When we burn biomass off products, that is carbon that's already part of the carbon cycle anyways, and would release it's carbon even if we didn't burn it. It's true that burning biomass is still harmful as it accelerates global warming, and thus it cannot be the main fossil fuel, but it is less harmful than using fossil fuels because so long as we don't burn coal and oil, that carbon remains trapped and doesn't influence the carbon cycle.
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I’m commenting on every video my teacher sends me so my classmates can see it XD
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COOL VIDEO
Nicely explained.
im kinda looking for some answers I the comments lol and thx for the vid
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All of the answers to my homework in 1 minute and 30 seconds. Edit: easily got an A+
That’s rilly epic win. #powertothepoop
Not enough emphasis on the Co2 part of it all
Can burn bodies in giant furnaces to create electricity?
I will burn Patrick the starfish.
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Genius
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Very simple and straight forward. Power to the poop😅
hi. I'm a student and I am doing a project on biofuels and this really helped me. All those people correcting you should be ashamed
Why do they always say “some sort of power 101”
what kind of editor is this
POWER TO THE POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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correction* it's been part of our life since life existed
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Biomass power plants produce more CO2 per megawatt hour than coal. The CO2 is released immediately, it takes decades to regrow the trees to take up CO2.These biomass plants are not just using "waste", they are removing & burning old growth, irreplaceable forest.
They are only burning dead trees which could take years too fall making the "decades to regrow the trees to take up CO2" even longer. Biomass plants quicken that process by burning down the dead trees and either replacing them with crops or more trees. Burning trees releases the same amount of C02 as letting them decompose naturally, so technically yes Biomass plants produce more carbon then coal but all that C02 that they do release would be released anyway in the future, ie when the trees decompose. So not only do they get to clear dead parts of forest to make way for new trees which will take in C02, they also get to make energy from the dead trees without adding any more C02.
But when you cut trees down to burn then you are removing an existing carbon sink for ahort term gain. Net result is carbon emissions
Simple video
It’s carbon neutral, if you care about that, depending on the source.
wow this is hard.....
I'm pretty sure we can all agree this is for school assignment
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Renewable, sure. Eco-friendly? Not so sure.
Really enjoyed your video. Let's check Avasva plans also
Who's here because of Michael Moore's documentary?
Power to the Pooooooooooop
Who’s funding this in the background?
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It seems like i am the only one here who is here out of intrest and not a school project :b
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Subtitles going wild
Anyone else here because of science hw? I am
how is burning forests "Green"? Let me know.
Trees are green bro..lol
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Biomass is a great idea ... for the people who own the power plant. Does anyone else think like me that cutting down forests to make electricity is insane? I just learned today that people believe this is eco friendly?
keyword is "waste", other companies are cutting down forests to make, lets say, doors. Some Green Energy people come in and take the waste of the door company and use it to make energy. Did you really think they were just cutting down whole forests? You cant be that dumb right?
@@beastysped3270 You do believe this is eco friendly right? Where does all the carbon go from the burnt trees? (As there is not enough waste timber they are cutting down trees to feed these power stations).
@@fredxxxxx Trees take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into biomass and when they die, it is released back into the atmosphere. Whether trees are burned or whether they decompose naturally, they release the same amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The idea is that if trees harvested as biomass are replanted as fast as the wood is burned, new trees take up the carbon produced by the combustion, the carbon cycle theoretically remains in balance, and no extra carbon is added to the atmospheric balance sheet. There is more then enough, from timber companies to dead parts of forests. A lot of biomass comes from dead trees, not even a toddler is dumb enough to think that burning full grown green alive trees is "green"
@@beastysped3270 Your theory is completely wrong. When trees die they decompose into the ground, they don't release CO2 until they are burned as coal ... where do you think coal comes from? When a tree is cut down to burn in a power plant a new tree should be planted I agree but it takes time for that tree to grow and a sapling can't absorb very much CO2. As for dead wood being burned I have never heard of anyone going around picking up the dead trees to fuel a power plant. Unfortunately the idea that you can have an eco friendly woodland where you can chop down a tree but hey, that's ok, I'll just plant another one and it's all equal doesn't work in practice. This video is pure propaganda by the power plant owners.
Why does "It need to be carried carefully and thoughtfully"?
Why do u think? So it can burn safely and more cleanly 🔥
Because it's a lie.
"Power to the poop" tho-
But that's the same as burning coals.... that's not green energy :x
Yes it produce greenhouse gases bu it still renewable energy resourse because it is sustainable energy , it continuously regereate itshelf .
To be clear: it is not the same as burning coal. It is green energy because all you have to do to recapture 100% of your carbon is replant whatever you harvest for biomass.
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Biomass is trees people!
BIOMASS IS TREES!
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WHAT IS THIS????
As for power to the poop😩😂😩
Ya great idea trees are green so green trees equals green energy look how smart you people are ...lol🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣
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Actually its """Power "Through" the poop 😂"""