NEWS Electricity from biomass with carbon capture could make western U.S. carbon-negativeMarch 6, 2015

Cov­er­age of the recent paper in Nature Cli­mate Change

Gen­er­at­ing elec­tric­i­ty from bio­mass, such as urban waste and sus­tain­ably-sourced for­est and crop residues, is one strat­e­gy for reduc­ing green­house gas emis­sions, because it is car­bon-neu­tral: it pro­duces as much car­bon as the plants suck out of the atmos­phere.  To read more, see:

http://​news​cen​ter​.berke​ley​.edu/​2​0​1​5​/​0​2​/​0​9​/​e​l​e​c​t​r​i​c​i​t​y​-​f​r​o​m​-​b​i​o​m​a​s​s​-​w​i​t​h​-​c​a​r​b​o​n​-​c​a​p​t​u​r​e​-​c​o​u​l​d​-​m​a​k​e​-​w​e​s​t​e​r​n​-​u​-​s​-​c​a​r​b​o​n​-​n​e​g​a​t​i​ve/

Cita­tion:

Sanchez, Daniel L., Nel­son, James H., John­ston, J., Mil­e­va, A., and Daniel M. Kam­men (2015) “Bio­mass Enables the Tran­si­tion to a Car­bon-neg­a­tive Pow­er Sys­tem Across West­ern North Amer­i­ca”, Nature Cli­mate Change, in press. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2488