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WHAT IS BIOENERGY?
Bioenergy is energy which is generated from vegetable material
(biomass). With biomass one can think of:
- arboricultural biomass (from public gardens and woods);
- forest thinnings from woods;
- rest- and waste wood from the industry (e.g. from sawmill);
- vegetables- , fruit- and garden waste (gft);
- agricultural residues, like straw and manure;
- vegetation which is especially cultivated for energy-purposes;
energy-crops, like willows, poplars, hemp, miscanthus;
- sludge (sewage sludge of communal or industrial water purification,
paper sludge).
By combustion, gasification, fermentation or production of
liquid substances, biomass can be transformed to bioenergy.
For more information and background visit http://www.biomasster.nl/
Vision of the Future:
The current rates of consumption are unsustainable, it is
necessary to completely reinvent how we view community and culture
at large.
Let’s say, in an effort to disperse population density, we
all chose to form communities consisting of approximately 50,000
people. Given our current global population, this would equal
the equivalent of 200,000 of these communities. Each community
would be self-sustaining. Meaning, the community, through intensive
recycling and reusing efforts, would supply and renew their
own energy, fuel and resources. A biomass processor would be
made available to each community. The processor would accomplish
several important goals:
- Recycles waste products created by the community. Including
garbage, organic waste, and human excrement.
- The end product of the waste are a usable virgin topsoil
which will be used to grow the communities’ food.
This will be computer controlled to have the exact mixture
of nutrients so that pesticides, and herbicides are no longer
necessary. The heat and pressure of the composting is used to
produce electricity, the methane is burned within the facility
to energize the process of molecular differentiation. This in
turn, concentrates the elements and delivers them to a resource
center. Some of which is used in the community, the bulk of
which is returned to the capitalists as their due. The product
of pure methane combustion is H2O and
CO2. MOIST PLANT FOOD!!! This is piped
into giant hydroponic gardens attached to the facility for the
production of exotic foods.
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