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ADVANTAGES

Environmental advantages - for starters, an advantage very basic but essential is the convert waste into a resource: an increase of recycling the proper treatment of biomass and a decrease in the waste-biomass energy does not contribute to climate change: its balance of CO2 emissions is neutral. Burning biomass for energy, CO2 is released into the atmosphere, but during the growth of the organic vegetable absorbs CO2. Thus closes the cycle and the level of emission of CO2 in the atmosphere is kept constant.-to use biomass as fuel eliminates waste, waste, waste water and slurry which are source of contamination of the subsoil and groundwater.

DISADVANTAGES

 The main disadvantage is the cost of the facilities which is greater than the of conventional energy sources and storage of biomass need larger installations. We must not forget that the calorific value of the biomass is much lower than fossil fuels, therefore a greater amount of biomass is needed to get the same energy as if we use fossil fuels.   Another disadvantage is that crops intended for the production of energy from biomass directly compete with crops for human consumption. Misuse can result in the increase in the prices of basic foodstuffs.