# Biomass boilers


![](https://www.lowimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/biomass.jpg)

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> "Burning biomass from sustainably managed woodland is a viable alternative to the release and accumulation of fossil fuel carbon in the atmosphere, and is a key weapon in the fight against global warming. The attempt to argue otherwise is scientific sophistry, and, to borrow a phrase, a dangerous bioenergy delusion." — Simon Fairlie



## Further resources


- [Forest Research](https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/biomass-energy-resources/) - biomass energy resources
- [Union of Concerned Scientists](https://www.ucs.org/resources/how-biopower-works) - info on biopower
- [Biofuel Watch](https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2020/resources-on-biomass/) - critique of large-scale biomass plants
- [[https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/dangerous-bioenergy-delusion|article by Simon Fairlie]]

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