Biomass

**//__ BIOMASS!!!__//**​ // **By: Amy V. Aila P. Kyndahl S.** //

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=//__ What is BIOMASS? __//= **Biomass consists of once living organisms which are burnt as fuel. Some types of biomass are wood, landfill gas, garbage, and produce.** == The process used to transform this energy into electrical energy. To transform biomass into energy you must burn it,biomass burning is the burning of living and dead vegatation. Before burning biofuels you purify the energy or it will release greenhouse gases. The biomass burns, creating heat which boils water. The boiling water creates steam that turns turbines conected to generators. The generators create energy. ==

The advantages of using this resource instead of burning fossil fuels.
Some of the advantages are that biofules are renewable, the crop is pelentiful, and easy to convert.

The disadvantages of using this resource.
Disadvantages are that ,like burning fossil fuels, the process of making biomass energy creates harmful greenhouse gases and warms the Earth, it takes more energy to colect the crop used to create energy, it is hard to collect biofuel, biomass crop is not available all year.

How this energy relates to your everyday life.
Remeber how to day you probably threw something into the garbage. That garbage could have been used as biofuel. California creates enough waste to create about 2,000 watts of energy. Humans are responsible for about 90% of biomass burning with only a small percentage of natural fires contributing to the total amount of vegetation burned. Many towns burn their garbage in biomass plants. Instead of putting the garbage in landfills, they burn it to make electricity.

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** Order from highest energy usage to least. **


 * || **Fraction** || ** Decimal ** || ** Percent ** ||
 * ** U.S.A ** || 3,892,000,000,000/17154402852000 || 0.2269 || 23% ||
 * ** Saudi Arabia ** || 156,800,000,000/ 17,154,402,852,000 || 0.0092 || 1% ||
 * ** Switzerland ** || 58,770,000,000/ 17, 154, 402, 852, 000 || 0.0035 || 1% ||
 * ** Jordan ** || 9,852,000,000/17,154,402,852,000 || 0.0575 ||  ||


 * **Country** || **Population** || **Energy Use Per Person** ||
 * U.S.A. || 307,212,123 || 12670 kw per person ||
 * Saudi Arabia || 28,686,633 || 54661 ||
 * Swizerland || 7,604,467 || 7729 ||
 * Jordan ||  ||   ||