WHAT ARE SOME USES OF BIOMASS?
Just about anyone who has made a fire knows how to use biomass energy. In many industrial circumstances biomass energy can be used to make the industrial process more efficient. For instance dirty waste water filled with cheese gunk (from a cheese plant) can be used as an input into a bacteria digester to create methane which can be burned to power the cheese plant. Or wood chips left over from a saw mill could be burned to create power for that mill. However burning things is always a dirty process that creates smoke and harmful vapors. A better way to use biomass is to use it to create methane and then hydrogen. To create methane (swamp gas) all you have to do is put biomass into some water and add certain bacteria. The bacteria do all the work. You can then capture the methane and use wind or solar power to refine that into hydrogen (using a process called steam reforming). If you burn the hydrogen all you get is water vapor and oxygen.
