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Biomass is whatever is living or has been alive in recent times. They're renewable energy source and all living organisms including the plants, animals, fungi, algae and bacteria are biomass. Things that were alive a few weeks ago and now converted into either some services and products or wastes may also be included in the category of biomass. These things range from the wood, degraded bodies and whole organisms by the microbial flora plus some organic fuels. Biomass is looked upon to be of two concerns. The more practical and commercial category of biomass is that related to industry where by biomass could be the source of energy production. Another, more specific, consideration of biomass is as an ecological term where it is considered as the number of all living organisms or a specific species in a given ecosystem or a place. We will simply take the commercial definition of biomass under consideration for it is more general and can be appreciated by a lay man and it is of wide interest to average man or woman, as the other type would call us for scientific expertise for its discourse.
Biomass usually differs from the hydrocarbon energy sources as 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 result from the hydrocarbon sources and are generally regarded as hazardous and dangerous to the environment because of their release of co2 as a waste. So the hydrocarbon sources are believed as not-biomass, for they have not been within the geochemical cycle of the world since such a long time concerning make their presence hazardous for the environment now. There is a normal level of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, that is, 0. 038%. Due to the extensive use of the hydrocarbon energy sources because the beginning of the age of industrialization, the concentration of carbon has been greatly disturbed and is thought to be increased by 35%. This happened since the hydrocarbons are not renewable. On the other hand the biomass is a renewable power source that is burnt and its own carbon is again fixed through the carbon cycle, which makes it a more favorable choice as compared to the coal and petroleum sources.
