Nation Turns to ND For Biomass Insight This Week

Public News Service - ND
July 19, 2010

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - What we used to call trash or waste is now being explored as a substantial energy source in this country. Biomass is anything from yard waste to egg shells, and this week experts from the U.S. and Canada are convening in North Dakota to talk about it. Biomass '10 will look at the latest ways biomass is being turned into power, transportation fuels and chemicals.

Chris Zygarlicke, technical director of the Biomass '10 workshop, says the process could replace a third of our fossil fuel demand one day.

"We're not going to eliminate all of our fossil fuel diet, but within five or 10 years we definitely could eliminate the need for oil from a couple of countries in the Middle East - if we just got our act together."

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