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Biomass generally means wood or agricultural waste/residue. Tree plantations probably use some land suitable for farming, but not all that much.

Most biomass generation occurs at plants that have other operations involving wood, so even much of the wood burned is byproduct.

I agree that massive expansion of biomass generation would impact agricultural land.



> I agree that massive expansion of biomass generation would impact agricultural land.

It would; just look at the amount of farmland currently used to produce plants used for the production of biofuels. It's a big impact on the food production capacity of the world, and it's mainly used to mix with regular oil-based fuels so that the oil/gas companies adhere to government standards, tax reductions and customer goodwill, whilst the biofuel producers get government grants and fundings and more tax deductions.

Of course, that's (iirc) first-generation biofuel, second/third generation (or grade) biofuel uses biowaste (shells, green stuff, animal waste, stuff that would otherwise be processed into compost or fertilizer).

source: my memory




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