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I was thinking about how to decentralize energy production. Coal, gas and uranium, wind and water are largely off limits to civilians.
What about biomass? What would be the minimum requirements to create a functional power source from greenwaste?


https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/biomass-crops-are-energy-efficient-and-climate-friendly

I was thinking about how to decentralize energy production. Coal, gas and uranium, wind and water are largely off limits to civilians. What about biomass? What would be the minimum requirements to create a functional power source from greenwaste? ***** https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/biomass-crops-are-energy-efficient-and-climate-friendly

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It doesn't work. It can be used at most as a supplement to the primary electrical generating system. It is dirty and doesn't produce enough power for a primary system, unless you want to burn an entire forest every week. It's all about energy density. Oil and coal have a high energy density, trash and wood chips don't.

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Yeah even with a catalyst, there's no way to improve the inherent energy of the source material. Perhaps with microbial research we could condense waste into fuel but that's another subject. Thanks for entertaining my hypothesis.