Even as Congress declares that biomass is carbon neutral, burning it puts thousands of lives at risk. Biomass mostly comes from firewood, waste wood, wood pellets and wood chips, but it can also come ...

CANTON, Minn. -- When Congress passed the Biomass Crop Assistance Program in the last farm bill, renewable energy supporters and sustainable agriculture advocates both cheered. Here is a program to ...

Move over, corn and canola. There's a new player in the biomass game. "Algae is the hottest thing in biomass. No question about it," says David Haberman, president of Delray Beach, Fla.-based IF L.L.C ...

Biomass is organic material derived from living or recently living organisms like plants, animals and microorganisms. It can be used as a renewable energy source via combustion, fermentation or ...

Biomass is burning trees for electricity and it is being promoted by politicians and the logging industry claiming that biomass will reduce wildfires and provide jobs. According to the California ...

One of the more controversial renewable energy resources is woody biomass, such as trees. It shouldn’t be, because biomass can be a highly sustainable resource, if it is properly managed. I lived in ...

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many nations are realizing that they are exceedingly vulnerable to just-in-time energy supplies, as well as to the outsized power of near-monopolistic energy states ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nutrients, researchers at North Carolina State University reviewed studies on underutilized sources of plant proteins and discussed strategies to enhance ...

WILLMAR -- From corn cobs to sugar beet pulp, researchers and entrepreneurs are studying how to turn biomass into a feasible -- and cost-effective -- source of renewable energy. But it's a complicated ...