Today there are lots of ‘buzz’ words to summarise new ‘green’ energy forms. The main words used are carbon neutral, or ‘reducing your carbon footprint’. Firstly carbon footprint refers to how much carbon each person produces with their life style. So simply speaking you will have a larger carbon footprint if you drive to work instead of taking the train or walking or cycling.
Carbon Neutral refers more to our topic of biomass and fuel pellets, and how it is neutral in the carbon cycle. Using fossil fuels is using carbon, which was trapped underground, and through burning, releasing it into the atmosphere. Therefore fossil fuels are not neutral but carbon positive, increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Biomass is any plant matter, which uses carbon dioxide during the growth cycle, as long as more biomass resources are grown the process is regarded as neutral, and can be used to lower each person’s footprint.
Even though biomass its self is carbon neutral, carbon is used in the process of collecting, processing and transporting. So really it is not neutral but does have a low carbon output, however in the future it is possible to be neutral by only using renewable carbon neutral energy at each stage of the process. Everyone in the future will have to focus more on their own footprint as the world’s population continues to increase. The diagram below from bioenergy.org explains the neutral process.
The PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer can process resources including wood into fuel pellets. If you would be interested in registering your interest in the PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer and receiving updates on our progress and informed when the pelletizer is on sale please send us an email to :
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