Welcome to the website all about Biomass and how it is used to create energy! Biomass is any type of plant or animal tissue that includes ....and many more. Biomass provides electricity and hot water by being burned. On this website, you will learn about how biomass is obtained, it's availability, how it's used to make energy and the costs to using biomass. To begin learning about biomass, you can look at the different important definitions to learn for biomass below. If you click on the "Obtained" tab, you can learn all about how biomass is obtained (how biomass is collected or gotten.) If you click on the "Availability" tab, you can read all about the availability of biomass in Canada. Clicking on the "Energy" tab will pring you to a page where you can learn about how biomass is used to create energy. The "Costs" tab will bring you to a page where you can read about the costs of using biomass (the costs towards the environment and the actual cost in dollars.) The "Videos" tab is where you can watch an informative video about biomass and how dying trees can be used to our advantage to power the province! Learn lots and have fun!
Inportant Vocab to Know
Biomass-Any type of plant or animal tissue. Eg: Wood chips, wood, straw, manure, crop waste and many more.
Kilowatt hour-1000 watts working in one hour.
Switchgrass-A tall grass native to the praries.
SRF-Stands for Short Rotation Forestry (grown trees and crops.)
ODT-One ton.
Green ton-2000 pounds of undried biomass material.
Biodegradable-When something is able to decompose (brake down.)
Carbon Cycle-The circulation of carbon from organisms and back again.
Renewable Resource-An natural resource that can be naturally restored and never runs out. Eg: Water.
Organism-A living thing such as a plant or animal.
