NEWS Electricity from biomass with carbon capture could make western U.S. carbon-negative
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://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/02/09/electricity-from-biomass-with-carbon-capture-could-make-western-u-s-carbon-negative/
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