Regarding the “European Biomass Problem” - the Letter of 800 Scientists to the EU.

Assertions that Biomass is NOT a Sustainable Fuel, are completely wrong.

This is probably valid only regarding the Forest Biomass, made out of cut forest trees. 

But there are alternative, 100% Carbon-Neutral ways to produce biomass, biofuels and else products too.

And this fact must be counted and included into the equation, if we speak about serious scientists.

For example, our company Grainis ltd. Hydrogen Bulgaria has been working since 2005 on projects and technologies for Hyper-Intensive, Gigantic-Volume Production of  Fast-Growing (1m/day) Bamboo Biomass, indoors, on Shelves, in a Vertical Multifloor Aeroponic Farm (aerofarms.com) 

100 Metric Tons per Day of  Green Biomass, produced on a 2,000 sq.m occupied land plot, with zero impact on the environment, and without a single tree cut. 

This unique technology will offer multiple crops, EVERYDAY HARVESTS and Giant Yields of  Fresh Green Bamboo Biomass, on 400 times less Farmland, with 95% Water savings, 100% Herbicide savings, 24h LED Lighting, 30% CO2-Boost, Computer-Controlled Sterile, Germless Feed Supply and Artificial Tropical Climate Environment. 

This is a precise, intelligent and high-tech farming of the future, which will eliminate someday at 100% all the drawbacks and impacts of the traditional primitive farming and the mass forest trees cutting.

100 Metric Tons per Day of  Green Biomass, produced on a 2,000 sq.m occupied land plot, with zero impact on the environment, and without a single tree cut. 

This unique technology will offer multiple crops, EVERYDAY HARVESTS and Giant Yields of  Fresh Green Bamboo Biomass, on 400 times less Farmland, with 95% Water savings, 100% Herbicide savings, 24h LED Lighting, 30% CO2-Boost, Computer-Controlled Sterile, Germless Feed Supply and Artificial Tropical Climate Environment. 

This is a precise, intelligent and high-tech farming of the future, which will eliminate someday at 100% all the drawbacks and impacts of the traditional primitive farming and the mass forest trees cutting. 

Thousands of  Vertical Farms will be spread across Europe and World, producing various kinds of fast-growing Biomass, Foods, Fuels, Industrial & Construction Materials, etc. 

Thus we'll not only save all the forests, but moreover, will create a lot more new ones, fighting the mass-deforestation and land-degradation, and will be able to turn all the deserts into green gardens - https://desert.alle.bg. Soil erosion globally is estimated up to 75 Gt /year, or a rate of 2,000 tonnes per second !

After 10-20 years, having this technology in use, there won't be such crazy people to cut even a single tree . 

The "Payback Period"  the reporters are mentioning, with our technology in hands, will be just one day ( the term of growing up the new bamboo crop) instead of  "years and centuries" for growing a new natural forest, as said in the reports. 

The process turnover will be so fast, that there will be no time for piling up the new volume of newly-emitted CO2 into the atmosphere, to play its negative global-warming role as a GHG. It'll be immediately consumed by the newly-growing plants.

The Bamboo Plants will consume huge volumes of CO2 from the air while growing during their 24h growth-cycle, then will be processed into biogas and liquid fuels, pellets, foods, fodders, pulps, fibers, humus-fertilizers, construction & engineering materials, etc., and during that time the new plants will grow, consuming new huge volumes of CO2 . 

That will be a perfect closed-loop cycle of  CO2-Sequestration (CCS), where most of the CO2 will be sealed for some time in some fuel or material, or food, or into the soil, through our organic humus-fertilizers, not acting as a GHG agent at all, while the new growing crops will consume new volumes of CO2 in the same time. 

Also, the direct combustion of  bamboo-biomass hard-fuel pellets and briquettes could be assisted of ultrahigh-temperature SOH Gas Burners for full-blast combustion (annihilation) of the Bamboo Biomass, with zero emissions and air-pollution with dust and fine powder particles .

So the process will be actually 100% Carbon-Neutral and Sustainable .

Spreading the technology around the globe will offer more and more gigantic volumes of CO2 to be captured and stored into various materials.   

And this is just one alternative of the cutting-trees option.

The Vertical Farm Technology will also help for eliminating the Livestock’s Methane, CO2, H2S etc. emissions by breeding Animals on Floors, in a completely sealed and sterile V-Farm, and also by breeding Protein-Rich INSECTS  on Shelves. 

Insects need 6 times less feed, 200 times less water, 1,000 times less land and emit 2,500 times less GH gases per kg meat produced, than the cows. 

Insect's Protein can be used for production of many low-fat, delicious and healthy analog, meat-similar foods. 

No doubt this will be one of the foods of the future. 

The Vertical Farm Technology will also help for eliminating the Livestock’s Methane, CO2, H2S etc. emissions by breeding Animals on Floors, in a completely sealed and sterile V-Farm, and also by breeding Protein-Rich INSECTS  on Shelves. 

Insects need 6 times less feed, 200 times less water, 1,000 times less land and emit 2,500 times less GH gases per kg meat produced, than the cows. 

Insect's Protein can be used for production of many low-fat, delicious and healthy analog, meat-similar foods. 

No doubt this will be one of the foods of the future.

Grainis ltd. Hydrogen Bulgaria has worked for the last 15 years on projects for Hyper-Intensive, Fast, Abundant and Low-Cost Intelligent / Precision Farming, based on application of advanced Hydrogen and Hybrid-Hydrogen (SOH Gas), etc. Technologies.

Our BAMBOO Biomass Project offers Everyday Harvests and Gigantic Yields of  Biomass , produced indoors, on shelves, on 1,000 times less  Land area, with 95% Water Savings, 100% Herbicide & Pesticide Savings, thanks to our disruptive, Superfast-Growing (1m/day) Bamboo, Hyper-Intensive, Vertical-Farming Technology, totally-unaffected by adverse weather conditions.

Our multi-faceted V-Farm technology offers a completely new Philosophy about the Farming of the Future.

No more mud, dust, rain, snow, storms, cold, heat, drought, flood, fires, vermins, insects, diseases, hard labor, polluting diesel tractors etc. machinery.  

Non-stop Computer-Controlled Climate in a 100% Sterile, Lab-Like Environment, Aeroponic Plants' Roots & Leaves Feeding, 24h LED lighting, 30% CO2-adition for plants' growing boost, etc.

The Farmer of the Future will work in a white apron, with a tablet in hand.

PEANUTS, grown on Floors/Shelves, in a Vertical Multi-storey Aeroponic Farm (V-Farm), offer several Harvests per year, and Giant Yields of oilseeds.

For example, the Bulgarian variety Lotos from Sadovo grows until harvest in only 115 days!

However, in the hyper-intensive conditions of a V-Farm, with a fixed warm climate, 24-hour LED Lighting in Cyan Spectrum and Intensive Concentrated Feeding, this period will be significantly shortened, probably less than 60 days, which implies over 6 harvests per year!

Peanut Oil burns perfectly, as it is, in diesel engines with minimal modifications, as well as in super-compact and hyper-high-speed Gas Turbines with fuel’s Preheating and Water-Emulsification before fuel injection, in order to reduce viscosity and achieve significant savings - up to 50% ; with Direct Mechanical Transmission, Turbo-Pneumatics or coupled with Electric-Power Generator for On-Board Power Generation and Electric-Motor Propulsion of  Electric Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Loaders, etc. Heavy Machinery, plus Trains, Ships, Aircraft - a Technology that will leave the heavy, expensive, slow-charging, highly-pollutive Batteries in the past.

This Technology could be applied for tremendous Energy-Cost Reduction in all kinds of  Households, SMEs, larger Businesses & Industrial Facilities, Communities, Schools, Hospitals, Sport Objects, Mines, Farms, etc., as well as in all kinds of  Vehicles.

Our technology is times better than the EV's one, though a Peanut-Oil / Diesel Engine-Power-Generator could be combined with an On-Board Electric-Propulsion System, for a best Propulsion performance. 

Fossil-Diesel will be banned as a fuel, in a decade or two. 

There are many noisy Rock Stars making a multi-billion marketing and giant desperate attempts, but still demonstrating not a single Alternatively-working Engine for Heavy Vehicles as Trucks, Front-Loaders, Excavators, Cranes, Power-Generation, Construction & Mining Machinery, Trains, Ships, Planes, etc. for the moment. 

Our P-Oil Technology is a clean, C-Neutral, existing & working solution for saving the existing Multi-Billion Asset Base of  Diesel-Engine Production Lines,  Factories and entire Economies, facing crash-down and scrapping soon. 

Another promising oilseed plant is the Ricin ( Ricinus Communis - 62% Oil Content ) which is extremely size-suitable for growing indoors, on shelves, in our Vertical Farm. 

We expect really gigantic oilseed yields and biodiesel output out of its fast-growing Bamboo-Crossbred Clone. 

Ricin is well known as a source of oil for lamps etc., yet 4,000 years ago. Its oil is widely used today as well. 

Ricinus plant and seeds are relatively toxic, but can be fully-detoxified by some genetic technologies and the Biomass Cake, remained after the ricin-oil extraction, - which cake is extremely rich of nutritions,  can be used as animal feed.