Talk:Biomass

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This article really could use expansion. There should be at least two or three sentences discussing the environmental impact of biomass production (generally an impact on the land). SarcasticDwarf 18:03, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I guess the impact is generally much the same as with all agriculture and forestry. --Tunheim 11:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it would also be good to mention something along these lines: Recent UK Government directives have required power generators to generate a certain proportion of their electricity from renewable sources, in order to help reduce the UK's CO2 emission levels in line with the Kyoto Protocol. This has resulted in a variety of "renewable" products being co-fired with coal, including wood pellets, olive expeller (waste olive), olive expeller pellets, straw pellets, palm kernel expeller and energy crops like miscanthus and short rotation willow coppice etc.

1 This looks like it needs attention
2 Reference gone
3 Inappropriate template
4 All marine biomass 3.87 Gtonne?
5 Table headings unclear

[edit] This looks like it needs attention

"Note: Biomass releases Typo aside; this seems like an odd statement. Is this meant to state "PREGNANT" women? Even then though, I think I can safely say it is accepted public knowledge that carbon monoxide is harmful to all people.

I just looked up 'biomass' because I'd come across the term and wanted explanation; this statement really jumped out at me and I thought I'd note it in case the original author would care to clarify, or someone knowledgeable would care to remove or correct it. --LeisaPhish 15:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reference gone

^ Oh, Chicken Feathers! How to Reduce Plastic Waste. Yahoo News, Apr 5, 2007. The Yahoo! reference link no longer works.24.123.3.106 19:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate template

The template:renewable energy sources has been vandalized to change it to say "Energy development" instead of "Renewable energy" which is what it should say. Nuclear power also needs to be deleted. Very few people think that nuclear power is "renewable energy". Template has been restored and protected for one week.199.125.109.108 07:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All marine biomass 3.87 Gtonne?

According to WB Whitman et al. (1998) PNAS USA 95:6581 the marine biomass from prokaryotes alone is estimated at 303 Gt. Plasmodesmata 17:06, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Plasmodesmata

the table is only biomass for human use/consumption. —Pengo 13:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Table headings unclear

The table "Biomass production for human use and consumption" lists "billion tonnes" as units. The word "billion" is not well-defined. This needs to be fixed and replaced with "giga tonnes" or "tera tonnes" as the case may be; as it stands, the table has next to no information content. AxelBoldt (talk) 05:46, 6 January 2008 (UTC)