Biomass, Black Carbon, and Global warming (BBGs)!!
Biomass, Black Carbon, and Global warming (BBGs)!! This blog was posted in 2014 but the logic is still valid. Hence I am sharing with those who have an interest in global climate change. According to a paper published in Energy Policy reports, a biomass resource model developed by a UK based school shows “that indigenous biomass resources and energy crops could service up to 44% of UK energy demand by 2050 without impacting food systems”. It is not clear whether this model accounts for the black carbon emitted by biomass fuel and its impact on the climate. BBGs are intimately related! One is a source of energy and the other is a source of global warming!! Over the centuries, civilizations used firewood, biomass, and dung cake to sustain lives. For both cooking and heating purposes, this was and is the cheap and easily available stock to humans, especially in rural areas. whether it is India or Ethiopia. Excess use of any such energy sources is harmful and the consequences are bei...