Biomass enables the transition to a carbon-negative power system across western North America
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Biomass enables the transition to a carbon-negative power system across western North America
Sustainable biomass can play a transformative role in the transition to a decarbonized economy, with potential applications in electricity, heat, chemicals and transportation fuels1–3. Deploying bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) results in a net reduction in atmospheric carbon. BECCS may be one of the few cost-e ective carbon-negative opportunities available should anthrop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Climate Change
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1758-678X,1758-6798
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2488