1) Alternative energy 2) Ecological metric 3) Ecology terminology 4) Fuel 5) Living matter in total 6) Much organic matter 7) One type of index 8) Plant fuel 9) Plant material used for fuel 10) Renewable energy 11) Renewable energy source 12) Renewable fuel source
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- plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
- the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
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A renewable energy source consisting of non-fossil biological material. This includes wood and wood byproducts, municipal waste, methane from landfills, and fuel from agricultural crops.
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Organic waste from agricultural, livestock, and lumber industry products, dead trees, foliage, etc., and is considered a renewable energy source. Biomass can be used as fuel and is most often burned to create steam that powers steam turbine generators. It is also used to make transportation fuels like ethanol and biodiesel, and chemicals like pyrol...
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A biomass is the total amount of living material in an area. It is calculated by adding up the weights of all of the individuals.
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Biomass is anything derived from plant or animal matter and includes agricultural, forestry wastes/residues and energy crops. It can be used for fuel directly by burning or extraction of combustible oils.
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1. <plant biology> Plant material that can be converted into fuel. ... 2. <ecology> A quantitative estimate of the entire amount of living organisms in a particular habitat, it can be measured in terms of volume, mass, or caloric energy. ... (21 Mar 1998) ...
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(bi´o-mas″) the entire assemblage of living organisms of a particular region, considered collectively.
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Any organic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis (excluding old-growth timber), including dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crop residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, aquatic plants, grasses, residues, fibres, and animal wastes, municipal wastes, and other waste materials.
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(Living things in their environment) the total weight of living organisms within a habitat or food chain
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In terms of energy production, biomass is wood and forest residues, crops and other plants, and animal manure.
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Material that has been produced by normal biological growth, like plants. Biomass may be used as a chemical resource
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is the total mass of living matter occupying any given area or ecological unit. Also used to describe fuel from living sources
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It is the total weight of all the organisms in a particular habitat.
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biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. In the context of biomass for energy this is often used to mean plant based material, but biomass can equally apply to both animal and vegetable derived material; biomass takes carbon out of the atmosphere while it is growing, and returns it as it is burned; if it is managed on ...
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biomass, bioenergy 1. The total weight of all living things in a given area, biotic community, species population, or habitat; a measure of total biotic productivity. 2. The total weight of the organic substance (as plankton) or organisms in a given area; measured as volume, mass (live, dead, dry or ash-free weight) or energy (calories); standing ...
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any organic material.
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All of the living material in a given area; often refers to vegetation.
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Burning wood, crop residues and dung is the most widespread source of energy for heating and cooking in the rural developing world.But burning biomass is a growing threat to surviving forests and a big source of smoke pollution.May be revived in high-tech form as liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel.
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Biomass, also known as biofuels or bioenergy, is obtained from organic matter either directly from plants or indirectly from industrial, commercial, domestic or agricultural products. The use of biomass is classed as a 'carbon neutral' process because the carbon dioxide released during the generation of energy from biomass is balanced by that absor...
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noun the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
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Energy produced from naturally replenishable resources such as plant matter, agricultural and forestry waste, and landfill gas. The only `biomass` resources that New England GreenStart members support are landfill gas from Chicopee, MA and an anaerobic digester in Rutland, MA that uses cow manure as its primary feedstock. See `Cow Power` for more...
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Biomass is the name given to all plants and animals (including humans) on Earth.
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Any plant-derived organic matter. Biomass available for energy on a sustainable basis includes herbaceous and woody energy crops, agricultural food and feed crops, agricultural crop wastes and residues, wood wastes and residues, aquatic plants, and other waste materials, including some municipal wastes. Biomass is a very heterogeneous and chemicall...
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Biomass is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. In the context of biomass for energy this is often used to mean plant based material, but biomass can equally apply to both animal and vegetable derived material. Biomass is carbon based and is composed of a mixture of organic molecules containing hydrogen, oxygen, ni...
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