Capturing Biomass for Energy CO2 Emissions on Site / Release Point Holds High Potential

According to a Bloomberg News Agency (New York, N.Y., USA) science headline from Sept. 14, 2018, trees and other plants such as switchgrass naturally remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it. Some researchers think that burning that kind of biomass for energy, then targeting and capturing and storing the exact site of carbon emissions, will reduce the carbon dioxide that has accumulated above the Earth in the atmosphere.

In their recently completed work reported on in this past Friday's article by Bloomberg, a research team concluded that bioenergy generation with carbon capture storage of its direct emissions from their concentrated release point at/near the power boiler could indeed effectively help scrub the atmosphere of carbon dioxide... but only if questions about its costs and effectiveness can be answered. Some of the questions continuing to be asked by top scientists focusing on climate, carbon, and bioenergy  include what specific species and general types (by vegetative properties) of trees and crops need to be grown, how to grow them in the best type of setting for successful carbon-capture upon energy processing, and where captured carbon would be transported and stored long-term as well as what growing certain food-type crops for carbon sequestration might mean for food production as a long-term potential negative effect to look out for.

For more information about this type (bio-mass energy on-site capture of CO2) and other carbon capture technologies being considered as part of a serious scientific counter-response to climate-change and the challenges it may present in the years ahead, visit the World Resources Institute's "Carbon Renewal" Project Website.