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Biomass

Biomass is a renewable energy source derived from living (or recently living) organisms, including dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crops, agricultural crop waste and residue, wood waste and residue, aquatic plants, animal waste, municipal waste and other waste materials. It is commonly used as a fuel in microthermal power plants.

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