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Biomass is whatever is living or has been alive in recent times. They are renewable energy source and all living organisms like the plants, animals, fungi, algae and bacteria are biomass. Items that were alive not long ago and now converted into either some services and products or wastes are also included in the category of biomass. These specific things are the wood, degraded bodies and whole organisms by the microbial flora and some organic fuels. Biomass is regarded to be of two concerns. The more practical and commercial sounding biomass is that related to industry where by biomass is the supply of energy production. Another, more specific, consideration of biomass is as an ecological term where it is considered as the number of all living organisms or a specific species in a given ecosystem or a place. We will take the commercial definition of biomass under consideration because of it is more general and can be appreciated by a lay man and is also of wide interest to general public, while the other type would contact us for scientific expertise for the discourse.

Biomass often is different from the hydrocarbon energy sources whilst the later strictly uses the fossil fuels and the geologically transformed hydrocarbons, such as, coal and petroleum oil. Since the environmental change has gained attention of the scientists and the governments the biomass energy sources have began to become favorites of the same against the environmentally hazardous coal and petroleum energy sources. Coal and petroleum come from the hydrocarbon sources and are generally regarded as hazardous and dangerous to the environment because of their release of skin tightening and as a waste. So the hydrocarbon sources are considered as not-biomass, for they will have not been present in the geochemical cycle of the world since such a long time concerning make their presence hazardous for the environment now. There exists a normal level of skin tightening and in the earth's atmosphere, that is, 0. 038%. Due to the extensive use of the hydrocarbon energy sources since the beginning of the age of industrialization, the concentration of carbon has been greatly disturbed and is thought to be increased by 35%. This happened because the hydrocarbons aren't renewable. On the other hand the biomass is a renewable energy source that is burnt and its own carbon is again fixed through the carbon cycle, making it an even more favorable choice in comparison with the coal and petroleum sources.

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