Advantages and Disadvantages of Biological Energy

ADVANTAGES

1.- Clean sustainable energy accessible to practically anyone (given the sufficient technology coverage). Since it is made from organic wastes, every home in the world can make up its own biological energy and have an endless choice of uses for that energy.

2.- Cheap energy and medium range energy ratio (25-30%). The process of decomposition of organic wastes is known especially for its work in fertilizing plants and other organisms, but not too long ago, scientists managed to convert that same energy for human purposes, and given those advances, human can now use it to produce electrical energy with a ratio of 25-30%.

3.- Opportunity to participate in the coming hydrogen economy. As many experts and economists have suggested, the energy of the future will no longer be produced from fossil fuels as today, but it will be exploited from organic matter, water and almost everything that contains hydrogen. Using biological energy, can give you the advantage of gaining participation in this market.

DISADVANTAGES

1.- The costs of labor, transportation, and storage are higher. Biological energy is of most convenience only when the mass of organic matter is high and concentrated, given that, storage of garbage is expensive specially because no economies of scale exist here at the time.

2.- The components that make bio energy may be scarce in certain places. It is very small part of the population in which biological products are super scarce, but in those areas, it is impossible to generate any energy from that energy.

3.- There isn´t a high demand on it. At the time, given the lower costs of consuming fossil fuels, most companies and governments do not demand for clean sources of energy, and this affects all types of renewable sources and clean energies.

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