b p e e p module8 learning experience1.6（b p e e p module8 experience1.6学习）.docVIP

(Learning Experience 1.6 Food for thought: Can food fuel more than our bodies? Biomass can be burned for fuel. But what is biomass? Biomass means plants or organic matter that is renewable. It includes crops, trees, agricultural food and feed crops, animal wastes, and other waste materials. Biomass can then be used to produce biofuel – a renewable energy source! If advanced technologies are used, the carbon in biofuel has been taken from the atmosphere by the growing plants, so burning the biomass (the plants) does not result in an increase of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere