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the planet's original battery: sunlight, stored in stems, waiting to burn or rot.
means the total mass of living or recently living organic matter, often harvested and burned as a renewable energy source.
from from greek bios (life) plus mass, coined in ecology to quantify living matter before energy companies borrowed the word to make wood pellets sound futuristic.
ants outweigh usinsect biomass dwarfs all human biomass combined
not carbon-neutral instantlytrees take decades to regrow what burning released in minutes
largest sourcebacteria hold more biomass than all animals on earth
policy loopholecounted as renewable even when it's clear-cut forest