Bio-Mass is a fuel type in the same family as biofuels, and is often thought as a specific type of biofuel. The key difference often used to denote the difference between the two is in the form of the fuel when used. A biofuel is a transformed version of biomass, commonly in the form of ethanol or biodiesel. On the other hand biomass, in this respect, is the use of the raw organic material as a fuel source. Important reasons for incorporating biomass within ones energy consumption are reducing the greenhouse effect and energy security. 

Biomass is grown in a variety of forms, including switch grass, hemp, corn, willow, sugar cane, algae and wood pellets. The energy balance within biomass fuel is hotly contested and debated.

Biomass fuel provides another extension for agricultural producers to markert their products in a new way. Biomass also uniquely serves a potential role in global warming and poverty reduction.

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