Biomass production – careful planning can bring many benefits

One way of supplying **energy** is to grow **plant material** and burn it. If managed well most of the carbon released by burning the material will be captured by the growing plants, and so have a low impact on overall **levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide**. Better still, the growing plants could be used **to help solve other environmental problems**. In a review of current systems, Göran Berndes from the Department of Energy and Environment at Chalmers University of Technology in Götenborg, Sweden highlights several systems. The review is published in this month’s edition of Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. "AlphaGalileo":[ http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=526369]

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