Tuesday 4th November 2008 - Energy from Biomass – Problem or Panacea?

SciBAr discussion lead by:- Dr Murray Bell of the University of Plymouth , School of Engineering.

Dr Bell has been designing a new kind of domestic sized combined heat and power plant. Its current configuration is that it is potentially capable of using renewable fuels (like wood pellets or wood chips) to generate electricity and heat without any contaminated air coming into contact with the moving parts of the engine. Combined with an inverter and battery storage it has the potential to make a household independent of centrally generated energy (gas and electricity particularly).
Dr Bell will bedrawing on his experinece to braoden out the discussion to cover biomass in general.