Climate change biomass combustion

The consumption of fossil fuels is not sustainable. With business as usual, the proven and economically recoverable fossil reserves will be exhausted in little more than 100 years. Substitution of fossil fuels is therefore required anyway on the long term. If CO2 emission from fossil fuel combustion is responsible for adverse climate changes like global wanning, substitution is desirable on the short term. The share of the renewable energy sources like wind, hydropower and biomass may be increased in a relatively short time. Each of these traditionally well known sources can contribute a... 

The presence of ethers in the atmosphere is almost entirely the result of direct emissions from anthropogenic sources (e.g., Arif et al., 1997 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001 Johnson and Andino, 2001 http //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethers and references therein). These sources can be quite varied and species dependent for example, many ethers are commonly used as industrial solvents many are formed as combustion intermediates and in the burning of biomass various branched ethers (e.g., methyl tert-butyl ether) are (or have been) used as fuel additives to increase octane number and reduce CO emissions dimethyl ether has being proposed as an alternative diesel fuel many fluorinated species have been manufactured, evaluated and used as possible chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) replacement compounds some halogenated species are used as inhalation anaesthetics or as chlorofluorocarbon replacements and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are used as flame retardants. There are no major routes to ether formation in the atmosphere itself. 

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