Is biomass the fuel of the future?

IndyStar.com (Indianapolis, IN)
By Erika D. Smith and Tom Spalding
Posted: November 23, 2009

Advocates say that burning plant materials to generate power is green and can save big bucks

You could call it the alternate alternative fuel.

Not wind.

Not ethanol.

Biomass.

Burning wood and other plant material to generate heat and electricity is the latest green energy method to sweep into Indiana. It's often cleaner than coal. Some say it's greener than windmills. And this energy supply really does grow on trees.

Though some people oppose the construction of huge biomass plants, claiming they have a distinctly brown downside, excitement about biomass is high in Indiana and elsewhere.

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