Kolar revea led that biomass is not some vision of the future, but very much a reality. Biomass is simply plant matter. It only takes basic biology to understand that carbon dioxide from air and water combine through photosynthesis to produce carbohydrates, the building blocks of biomass. The sun's energy is stored in the chemical bonds of biomass. If we burn biomass efficiently, oxygen in the air combines with carbon in plants to produce carbon dioxide and water.
Carbon dioxide is available to produce new biomass and that's why it is a renewable resource.
Kolar and his biomass cohorts rep ort biomass represents a tremendously large energy resource. The world is using only 7 percent of biomass production. It's all about sustainability. Biomass won't replace fossil fuels completely. Sustainability based on renewable biomass reduces the need for fer tilization or herbicides.