BAMBOO OVER WOOD FUEL!
Did you know you can also use bamboo for fuel?
In 2015, the first bamboo-fueled power plant opened in Japan.
And five years later it’s still gaining steam. The joint venture between the
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and local
industry has found a way to generate cleaner energy with a readily renewable
and available resource.
The principle of burning bamboo for fuel is similar to any other biomass fuel production.
Instead of burning fossil fuels that require millions of years of geological pressure,
biomass grows annually under the rain and sun. Corn, hemp and wood logs are some
common examples of biomass.
Bamboo makes an ideal resource for biomass because of how fast it grows. As a grass,
it renews itself almost immediately, with no need to plow the fields and sow the seeds.
When bamboo is cut down and harvested, the complex root systems remain alive and intact,
ready to send up new shoots.
Furthermore, it produces about 30-35% more oxygen than an equal area of trees.
In this way, bamboo battles climate change by reducing carbon in the atmosphere, both coming and going.
Kudos to Divine, who took up the mantle to make it possible with her group "Divine Bamboo" by educating the women on it's importance and also on how to cultivate it amongst crops and as a replace for wood fuel. This is a very commendable step towards climate action.
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