The Best Ways to Use Bioenergy
Wood Fuel (1/6)
An Iranian boy prepares tea for his family during a picnic near Tehran. Around 3 billion people worldwide still rely on wood, charcoal, or black liquor for heating and cooking. Burning wood still produces half of all biomass energy used worldwide. (Photo: Reuters)
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Wood Fuel (1/6)
An Iranian boy prepares tea for his family during a picnic near Tehran. Around 3 billion people worldwide still rely on wood, charcoal, or black liquor for heating and cooking. Burning wood still produces half of all biomass energy used worldwide. (Photo: Reuters)
The Best Ways to Use Bioenergy
Charcoal Fuel (2/6)
A worker feeds logs, cut from virgin Amazon rainforest, into one of the nearly 1,200 ovens that produce charcoal for iron smelters and home use. The cutting of trees for the charcoal industry is one of the main causes of the destruction of rainforest.
Mankind has used charcoal for thousands of years. It remains a primary source of energy for cooking and heating in less developed regions. (Photo: Reuters)
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Charcoal Fuel (2/6)
A worker feeds logs, cut from virgin Amazon rainforest, into one of the nearly 1,200 ovens that produce charcoal for iron smelters and home use. The cutting of trees for the charcoal industry is one of the main causes of the destruction of rainforest.
Mankind has used charcoal for thousands of years. It remains a primary source of energy for cooking and heating in less developed regions. (Photo: Reuters)
The Best Ways to Use Bioenergy
Energy from Bio-Waste (3/6)
A woman in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka dries cow dung under the sun to be used for cooking fuel. In many Dhaka homes without electricity or gas connections, residents use kerosene or cow dung-fired stoves. Some poor women also sell dry cow dung to support their families.
(Photo: Reuters)
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Energy from Bio-Waste (3/6)
A woman in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka dries cow dung under the sun to be used for cooking fuel. In many Dhaka homes without electricity or gas connections, residents use kerosene or cow dung-fired stoves. Some poor women also sell dry cow dung to support their families.
(Photo: Reuters)
The Best Ways to Use Bioenergy
Biofuels (4/6)
A truck is loaded with sugar cane that will be used in the production of ethanol in southern Brazil. Three-quarters of the cars now being produced in Brazil have "flex-fuel" engines, capable of running on either ethanol or petrol, or any mixture of the two.
Brazil and the United States are the world’s largest biofuel producers. Global ethanol production has doubled since the year 2000. (Photo: Reuters)
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Biofuels (4/6)
A truck is loaded with sugar cane that will be used in the production of ethanol in southern Brazil. Three-quarters of the cars now being produced in Brazil have "flex-fuel" engines, capable of running on either ethanol or petrol, or any mixture of the two.
Brazil and the United States are the world’s largest biofuel producers. Global ethanol production has doubled since the year 2000. (Photo: Reuters)
The Best Ways to Use Bioenergy
Biogas (5/6)
A worker refills a drum with firewood inside a biomass gasifier power plant in the southeastern Indian village of Gosaba. The biomass gasifier plant supplies around 1,200 families with power. Gasification is considered the most efficient way of using biomass to produce energy. (Photo: Reuters)
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Biogas (5/6)
A worker refills a drum with firewood inside a biomass gasifier power plant in the southeastern Indian village of Gosaba. The biomass gasifier plant supplies around 1,200 families with power. Gasification is considered the most efficient way of using biomass to produce energy. (Photo: Reuters)
The Best Ways to Use Bioenergy
Biogas from Waste (6/6)
A excavation digger works at the Hill and Moor Landfill site in Pershore, England. The landfill uses methane gas created from waste, sewage, manure, grass, and animal remains to produce energy. Biogas has become an increasingly popular source of environmentally friendly energy in Europe and Asia. (Photo: Reuters)
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Biogas from Waste (6/6)
A excavation digger works at the Hill and Moor Landfill site in Pershore, England. The landfill uses methane gas created from waste, sewage, manure, grass, and animal remains to produce energy. Biogas has become an increasingly popular source of environmentally friendly energy in Europe and Asia. (Photo: Reuters)
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