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Biomass energy: green or dirty?

08 Jan 2020
Taken from the January 2020 issue of Physics World.

The conversion to biomass energy has played a key role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. But is this renewable energy source really as green as we first thought? Kate Ravilious investigates

(Courtesy: iStock/catalby) In May 2019 the UK went an entire fortnight without using any coal to gen

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