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Broadcast Date: Tuesday 6 June 2006,
12:15-12:30GMT
Summary: Deriving Biofuels from Biomass and
Bio-waste
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Professor Tony Bridgwater, Aston University, explains fast pyrolysis and how it is similar to creating charcoal, but much faster and creates bio-oil.
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Mark Coulson, Aston University, explains that working with biomass uses and releases carbon in a closed circle, whereas burning fossil fuels simply releases carbon into the air that has been stored underground for a very long period.
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Professor Tony Bridgwater discusses the limitations of suitable land in the UK or growing biomass.
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Professor Tony Bridgwater says that in the short term they see fast pyrolisis as a way of producing heat and power, but in the long-term they also hope to see it producing transport fuels and chemicals, in addition to heat and power.
