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Plants spent millions of years storing sunlight so we could burn it in a hurry.
means Organic material — plants, crops, wood, waste, algae — measured or used as fuel or raw material, especially as an energy source.
from Built from Greek 'bios' (life) plus 'mass,' from Latin 'massa' (lump, dough). The word is a 20th-century scientific coinage, first used by ecologists to measure the total weight of living matter in an ecosystem before energy researchers borrowed it to describe organic material burned or converted into fuel.
- official status
- counted as renewable, unlike its cousin coal
- biggest source
- wood and wood waste, not crops
- carbon math
- carbon neutral only if regrowth keeps pace
- global role
- largest renewable energy source by actual use