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Biomass is something 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 a few weeks ago and now became either some products or wastes will also be contained in the group of biomass. These exact things range from the wood, degraded bodies and whole organisms by the microbial flora and some organic fuels. Biomass is considered to be of two concerns. The more practical and commercial group of biomass is that associated with industry where by biomass may be the supply of energy production. The other, more specific, consideration of biomass can be as an ecological term where it is considered as the number of all living organisms or even a specific species in a given ecosystem or a place. We will take the commercial definition of biomass in mind for this is more general and can be appreciated by a lay man and is also of wide interest to general public, whilst the other type would call us for scientific expertise for its discourse.

Biomass usually is different from the hydrocarbon energy sources since the later strictly uses the fossil fuels and the geologically transformed hydrocarbons, such as, coal and petroleum oil. Because the environmental change has gained attention of the scientists and the governments the biomass energy sources have started to become favorites of the same against the environmentally hazardous coal and petroleum energy sources. Coal and petroleum come from the hydrocarbon sources and are generally seen as hazardous and dangerous to the environment for their release of carbon dioxide as a waste. And so the hydrocarbon sources are believed as not-biomass, for they have not been contained in the geochemical cycle of the world since so very long as to make their presence hazardous for the environment now. There exists a normal amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, that's, 0. 038%. Due to the extensive use of the hydrocarbon energy sources because the start of 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 power source that is burnt and its particular carbon is again fixed through the carbon cycle, making it a more favorable choice as compared to the coal and petroleum sources.

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