Chapter 19.
Biogenic Fuels
Biogenic heating fuels. Twigs
of wood, dried cow, buffalo, or camel dung.
Under international greenhouse gas accounting methods developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, biogenic carbon is part of the natural carbon balance and it will not add to atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. - IPCC
BIOGENIC
CARBON Wood-burning
stoves, fireplaces, and forest fires,
carbon-neutral since they use modern carbon, rather than Jurassic carbon, are
exempt. In a similar way,
(Right) A straw bale stoker boiler for burning carbon-neutral straw. The electricity to power the stoker boiler comes from a wind turbine. This works out well since wind turbine electricity is not usually available in quantities sufficiently large enough and cheap enough for heating.
Carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe. Over the years nature has buried in the ground and under the oceans 90 times the carbon found in all life.
