Quotes About Biomass

Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass

and to whose unsurpassable mastery of ballistics and biomass energetics we owe our third sun that now shines above us with its own famous on-off switch....

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

You've probably heard the expression that the Industry feeds off of biomass, like a whale straining krill from the ocean.

Few coffee drinkers realise how little of the biomass generated at a coffee farm is consumed,or the wastefulness associated with their consumption habits.

By selecting and growing those few species of plants and animals that we can eat, so that they constitute 90 percent rather than 0.1 percent of the biomass on an acre of land, we obtain far more edible calories per acre. As a result, one acre can feed many more herders and farmers—typically, 10 to 100 times more—than hunter-gatherers. That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes.

India has struggled with the inadequacy of modern energy for a long time. Noncommercial energy commonly known as "biomass"—wood and agricultural and animal waste—has been the fuel for more than half of India's population. In terms of commercial energy, India depends on coal for over half of its total energy, and almost 75 percent of electricity.

Africa, in particular, has barely begun to exploit its renewable energy potential. Energy analysts say that solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass sources could more than supply the energy needs of every continent. The key is providing a favorable playing field, and that means financial aid, technology transfer, and training programs to assist developing nations, like the ones being advanced by the EU/AU partnership.

we were all told that we had to stop using fossil fuels and start living on sunshine and wind. Since neither of these provides enough electricity to give everyone a lit light bulb (and weren't ever likely to do so) governments started chopping down trees, chopping them up, calling the result biomass, burning it and labelling it 'sustainable'. Anyone objecting to what was clearly the beginning of a huge scam was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist and publicly shamed

The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as well as coal, biomass, and trash, by legalizing methanol. This would force oil prices down, expand the economy, and create millions of jobs.

Plants removing carbon from the air is, in fact, how the earth's vast coal deposits were formed.