Ag Waste Tested for Making Electricity

DesMoinesRegister.com:
by Frank Vinluan -- 12/14/2005
"Studies also show that burning biomass produces less carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide - which affect the environment - compared with burning coal.
If Cedar Falls Utilities is able to convert the turbine's fuel source from coal to biomass, the renewable fuel would replace up to 25 percent of the utility's coal-fired power generation. Most of the utility's power comes from coal-fired generating stations in Council Bluffs and Sioux City.

Others are exploring biomass. Alliant Energy is a partner with Chariton Valley Resource Conservation and Development and the U.S. Department of Energy on a biomass project in Chillicothe, near Ottumwa. That project burns switchgrass."