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Biomass is anything that is living or has been alive in recent past. They're renewable energy source and all living organisms such as the plants, animals, fungi, algae and bacteria are biomass. Things that were alive not long ago and now changed into either some products or wastes are also contained in the category of biomass. These things are the wood, degraded bodies and whole organisms by the microbial flora and some organic fuels. Biomass is looked upon to be of two concerns. The more practical and commercial category of biomass is that related to industry whereby biomass is the source of energy production. The other, more specific, consideration of biomass is really as an ecological term where it is considered as how many all living organisms or even a specific species in a given ecosystem or even a place. We will simply take the commercial definition of biomass in mind for it is more general and will be appreciated by a lay man and is also of wide interest to general public, whilst the other type would contact us for scientific expertise for its discourse.

Biomass often is significantly diffent from the hydrocarbon energy sources whilst the later strictly uses the fossil fuels and the geologically transformed hydrocarbons, such as for instance, coal and petroleum oil. Because the environmental change has gained attention of the scientists and the governments the biomass energy sources have began to become favorites of the same contrary to the environmentally hazardous coal and petroleum energy sources. Coal and petroleum result from the hydrocarbon sources and are generally thought to be hazardous and dangerous to the environment for their release of carbon dioxide as a waste. So the hydrocarbon sources are considered as not-biomass, for they have not been present in the geochemical cycle of the world since such a long time as to make their presence hazardous for the environment now. There is a normal level of co2 in the earth's atmosphere, that is, 0. 038%. Due to the extensive usage of the hydrocarbon energy sources since the beginning of the age of industrialization, the concentration of carbon has been greatly disturbed and is thought to be increased by 35%. This happened as the hydrocarbons are not renewable. However the biomass is just a renewable energy source that's burnt and its carbon is again fixed through the carbon cycle, making it a more favorable choice in comparison with the coal and petroleum sources.

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