From what I've read (not much I admit) the biomass for biofuels cost as much power - or more - to gather/grow/harvest as they return in energy.
I live in a rural area so everyone is happy about this concept but the math doesn't really make sense to me. Acquiring hydrogen seems much easier and far less messy than biofuels (by messy I mean the complex and varied retrieval processes needed to efficiently use biomass as an energy). I'm very interested in this area because it would mean a new revenue for my province but it just doesn't add up from what I can tell.
I live in a rural area so everyone is happy about this concept but the math doesn't really make sense to me. Acquiring hydrogen seems much easier and far less messy than biofuels (by messy I mean the complex and varied retrieval processes needed to efficiently use biomass as an energy). I'm very interested in this area because it would mean a new revenue for my province but it just doesn't add up from what I can tell.