First American Scientific Corp. (fka FASC)

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Hi Tech…
it is not so much that burning biomass is cleaner, it is just that no new components are being added to our environment. The wood chips, for example, would decompose eventually anyway, and enter the environment. Using fossil fuels is different because it releases chemicals that were “stored” and not part of our air and water until they were released through burning. They add to our existing pollution. Components of biomass just keep “recycling” kind of like the famous water cycle. That is what the Nature in Balance brochure is showing.

I fact, I think that there is something called “negative emissions” where we are in effect reducing the amount of pollution because we are “recycling” biomass and not releasing the pollution stored in fossil fuels.


As stated on this page...
http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/atlas/htmlu/biohenv.html
"The combustion of biomass does not produce more CO2 than the plants take out of the atmosphere during growing. The increased use of biomass for heat (CHP) production would help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions"



Having said that, I agree with you that some numbers would be nice to have.

Take care...