ABSTRACT
Engineers and industry analysts began to wonder if an ample supply would remain available with the growing popularity of the automobile. Alternative fuels such as grain alcohol were available, but alcohol was double the price per gallon at the turn of the century. Fuel cell vehicles with onboard methanol reformers would have very low emissions of urban air pollutants. Developed nations that generated higher proportions of their energy from biomass include Ireland with 17% and Sweden with 13%. Biomass technology allows the carbon in the organic matter to be recycled. Prior to the widespread use of coal and oil, biomass in the form of firewood was the principal energy source in the US Biomass feedstocks can be used to create gaseous and liquid fuels. Biomass energy production can replace a variety of traditional energy sources such as fossil fuels in solid or liquid forms.
