Energy potential, biomass global

The Renewables-Intensive Global Energy Scenario (RIGES) predicts a primary energy potential from biomass resources for Western Europe to be 14160 PJ/year by 2025 and 14 170 PJ/year by 2050 (Johansson et al., 1993). Thereby the biomass potential comprises resources from wood, energy crops, agricultural residues and industrial biomass residues. The estimates are based on the biomass production at that time in combination with assumptions of future growth rates. 

The total sustainable worldwide biomass energy potential seems to exceed 100 EJ (Table 11), which is just below 30% of total global energy consumption today (Kaltschmitt, 1999 and Goldenberg et al, 2000). 

Photosynthesis creates a global annual CO2 flux of 1.24 x 10 tonnes per year and an annual O2 flux of 10" tonnes per year. In its present technologically unenhanced form, photosynthesis already traps around 4000 EJ per year of solar energy globally in the form of biomass. The global biomass energy potential for... 

Cannell, M.G.R. (2003). Carbon sequestration and biomass energy offset theoretical, potential and achievable capacities globally, in Europe and the UK. Biomass and Bioenergy, 24(2), 97-116. 

Hoogwijk, M., Faaij, A., van den Broek, R., Berndes, G., Gielen, D., Turkenburg, W. 2003. Exploration of the ranges of the global potential of biomass for energy. Biomass Bioenergy 25 119-133. 

The five most common renewable sources of primary power are hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, biomass, and solar. Hydroelectric power is considered by many to be a model energy source. It is clean, relatively benign environmentally, nonpolluting, and relatively inexpensive. However, the global theoretical potential of the hydrology of all the world s precipitation and all of the energy... 

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