What Is Biomass? (And Why Bamboo Could Be A Game-Changer For Renewable Energy) | Power To The People

[@aziris7257]

Bamboo is pretty much the worst fuel for a biomass reactor. I once thought that yellow bamboo's fast growth would make it a good source for biomass, but I was wrong. When you actually use bamboo for fuel, you quickly realize that it brings more harm than good. In the first place, bamboo is 80% air. When you see huge clumps of bamboo bushes with tall bamboo stalks, what you actually see are hollow cylinders with very thin walls, not thin trees. If you calculate based on volume, you are calculate not biomass, but mostly air. There is very little biomass inside bamboo in comparison to the volume it occupies. Second, even the actual biomass doesn't have much carbon to be used as fuel. The actual biomass, the one that you could measure its weight are also not entirely burnable material, containing a lot of air and water. If you dry it of water, you will notice that even a big and long stalk of bamboo is so light that you can carry bundles of them in one hand. That's because most if its volume is air and most of its weight is water. Finally, there's the environmental impact. Most people would say, "but it does grow fast, so we can just grow lots of them and it will work out, right?". That would be wrong. A single tree is denser than a whole clump of bamboo bush while taking the same if not more space than a tree. In indonesia, whole forests were devastated because of bamboo planting, and it was for a measly amount of electrical power. A biomass reactor in one of the islands in sumatra closed its operations after only 3 years, because the supply of bamboo from the whole island wasn't enough to sustain its operation. And yet this powerplant was only supposed to satisfy the power needs of that island, of which its inhabitants only use the power for light and clothing iron. Biomass may be a possible solution, but bamboo is not the solution for biomass powerplant. It does a lot more harm than good.

[@air7tv]

100% , this is so dumb, don't encourage this stupid idea

[@TaLeng2023]

Yeah, bamboo is more a renewable building material coz of the structural strength but I doubt it's good for generating energy. Even where it is grown, locals don't bother making charcoal out of it, with coconut shells being the preferred renewable firewood.

[@chichidog625]

your comment is so long but nothing is spoken. all you said was bamboo got air space in the middle. so dumb

[@air7tv]

@@chichidog625 back to school with you 😂 compare 1kg of wood with 1kg of bamboo, compare the volume. Then imagine how much bamboo you will need to run a biomass powerplant compared to wood (hint: it will be many hundred times the volume of bamboo)

[@air7tv]

Please everyone, flag this video as "spam / misleading" . This kind of trash "journalism" needs to be stopped 🤙😃

[@Dominus_Potatus]

On a glance, I question the purpose of bamboo as fuel. First of all, Bamboo itself isn't containing a lot of HC as the main fuel for combustion. For rural area, it might be the best choice other than micro-hydro electric. As they put in the video, "a bamboo can give electricity for a rural home for a month." That rural home only uses electeicity for lightning, ricecooker, or ironing clothes. In the complete video one of the citizen said they only need IDR 50k per month. It means they consume around 50kWh per month. The study must show how much bamboo do we need to continuously gives electricity. I think the best idea of using bamboo as fuel is local economic benefit.

[@shahrilramli6829]

What is HC?

[@user-or5cr4pn6m]

@@shahrilramli6829prob hydrocarbon

[@irokpe6977]

​@@shahrilramli6829 hydrocarbon

[@joetran8798]

It depends on how the generation is deployed. One central generator over a wide area is wasteful after you consider transportation of the bamboo and then the loss after transmission. Now if you could station a generator in a given region with enough groves to feed the generator (and other organic waste like kitchen scraps and whatnot) that would be worth it. And the waste byproduct could be used as soil amendments. It would be interesting to see how big a power plant would need to be for something like this.

[@Dominus_Potatus]

@@joetran8798 this makes more sense... So, it becomes incinerator...

[@thuythanhnguyen8888]

Used to used all types of materials to make fire to cook food, bamboos are the ones couldn’t keep the fire or give coal. However, they catch fire fast.

[@air7tv]

Burning bamboo for electricity is so stupid, don't encourage this ridiculous idea

[@JohnGreer-j3u]

All of these comments ignore what is more likely as a use case for bamboo. As a feedstock it would more likely be processed with other catalyzing materials (like onion bagasse which is agriculture waste) and used for anaerobic bio-digestion, where the materials are essentially rotted in a sealed chamber which then produces methane, subsequently burned and used to power generators. Further, to reduce the seasonal undulations in feedstock availability, bamboo doesn't have a growing "season" like most agricultural products and can therefore help reduce the availability curve. This season can be further reduced by pelletizing these same materials such that they're available year round.

[@AP-lf6qs]

Im not sure about this when we have Solar, wind turbine, Nuclear and so many options the world is working on. Bamboo maybe as a backup over oil would be a good option though.

[@xianlonglee-n6h]

Bamboo or any forms of biomass cannot be the solution carbon free energy. Advance economy of the future requires enormous amount of energy. The numbers just do not add up with biomass. The solution has to be nuclear. Fission with option for fusion. Biomass and other alternatives may take up some portion of the energy mix for risk management purposes. If bamboo is the solution, global deforestation would take place on an even greater scale.

[@souravjaiswal-jr4bj]

How does it compare to solar? Solar to grid must be 10x more effective than bamboo, battery storage will provide 24/7 electricity especially in tropical regions.

[@wisfina]

While bamboo is a promising biomass resource due to its fast growth rate, it shares some drawbacks with other forms of biomass fuel. Like wood, burning bamboo releases carbon dioxide (CO2) and requires dedicated land for cultivation.

[@PravdaSeed.]

🐼 WHY u disturbing the picture & All these Additional Monsanto Noise ⁉️

[@k.3004]

Your thumbnail uses a Dracaena not Bamboo

[@gainimadhu2109]

Yes we can make a lot of difference by using bamboo powder instead of coal powder in thermal power plant.... Also it is best for ethanol production...

[@karanmadan1048]

Don't know about energy,heard bamboo spread fast if cultivated. Second heard some criminal sell small plants from far land from city.

[@sarcasmo57]

No bamboo in Europe? Not even these days?

[@NitishYadav-lb7zc]

This will lead to further degradation of soil due to monoculture plantation and wil also lead to chopping down of forests as in the case of Brazil

[@DangDuctri-ky8vg]

0:51 😡😡 DONT THESE BURNING MAKE BLACK SMOKE? CAUSE HARM? WHY DONT YOU MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT BLACK SMOKE?

[@greenlabfutures]

Biomass conversion requires only closed loop technologies. You should be more interested in the deforestation challenges…

[@Riad-z9k]

Rip south sudan 🇸🇸 in the world map

[@garylow708]

Nice report but done everything wrong for biomass.

[@Trueye-sl2mr]

As a CIA mouthpiece all naratives by CNA are misinformation and misleading. There are a lot of more valuable bamboo products like flooring boards, cutting boards, etc.

[@shoaibqureshi236]

Bro what u Talkin about cna is best channel for Singapore news

[@ericphua2359]

Don't bring in Geo politics. We are talking about green energy here.

[@aberba]

Bamboo cutting boards are trash

[@JojoJoget]

@@ericphua2359the only thing green here is the color of bamboo, how you think they process bamboo? Boiler? Combustion?

[@ericphua2359]

@@JojoJoget Singapore gas combustion fired powered plant trap all the carbon it produces and does not release to the atmosphere.

[@chengchiu957]

THis video is so stupid, they really said a single bamboo is enough to fuel a poverty stricken household in north Korea in a month? How is something that produces so little energy going to supply anyone in a western country? What keep everyone poor and have dimm lights?

[@dustarian]

Hemp is another...

[@lycan39]

Good to know, Thanks. Btw, bamboo 🎍 been around for ages. 😂😂😂

[@Cmi1267]

Why is it 😂? She did say that as well. Bamboo as fuel stock is recent.

[@lokesh303101]

Bioenergy means to say Bioethanol.

[@marvinsantos2977]

those are not renewables

[@jessicaregina1956]

Biomass is what you created when u go to toilet for no.2

[@lucasn0tch]

Using bamboo as biofuel has dire consequences: it could lead to the extinction of pandas, as they will no longer have a habitat to live in.

[@Dr_piFrog]

"Game-Changer" is a rather trite expression, couldn't you find something a bit more scientific. What particulates and gasses are released into the atmosphere.

[@jessicaregina1956]

M1 Abrams will be a game changer.

[@Dead.garden]

Like mybe grow it in runoff spots full of chemicals or something sure but to make more power im sorry no

[@graphguy]

stupid idea. Obviously you don't understand the subject.

[@jakefrost8017]

Hemp! 😂