The Energy Source with Least Environmental Impact: Agricultural Plant Biomass to Electric Power

Burning agricultural plant biomass to generate electricity is the greenest: it is 100 percent renewable, absolutely net zero carbon emission. The reason the term “agricultural plant biomass” is used here is that we don’t want people to think that we are suggesting to cut down trees to burn to generate electricity. No, we are not talking about deforestation, not open burning, not burning in a fireplace to provide heat for a building, not bio-waste or construction waste burning, we are talking about large-scale power generation using modern coal-firing power plant technology with state-of-the-art exhaust control, fuel materials supplied by agriculture.