Fully updated in 2015, this book examines the debates surrounding biomass power, an important renewable energy resource. Find out why like fossil fuel power, using biomass has an impact on global warming and pollution. How do its impacts compare with those of other renewables? Is burning biomass an economic alternative to burning fossil fuels? Find out in Let's Discuss Biomass Power!

Let's Discuss Energy is an innovative series of books that examines the issues and changing technologies that surround the use of renewable and non-renewable resources for world power needs. An excellent study tool for children at Key Stage 2.

This book features in the following series: Let's Discuss Energy Resources, Lets Discuss Energy Resources .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

The author, Louise Spilsbury, has written many books for children on a wide range of subjects. Louise Spilsbury, has written many books for children on a wide range of subjects.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Biomass as an energy resource
• 2: What is biomass?
• 3: From wood to fuel
• 4: How biomass power stations work
• 5: Energy from waste
• 6: Biofuels
• 7: Land impacts of biomass power
• 8: Atmospheric impacts of biomass
• 9: How biomass power affects people
• 10: The cost of biomass power
• 11: How governments help biomass
• 12: New biomass technology
• 13: The future for biomass power
• 14: Biomass activity