Namibia: Biomass as an Energy Resource

In order to ensure the sustainable supply of biomass, it is vital to promote reforestation and environmental preservation measures. Nevertheless, biomass emits little greenhouse gasses compared to coal, gas or oil.

Biomass energy has helped our distant ancestors since their early days. And currently it is the energy of the poor. Anyhow, the benefits of biomass outweigh its minor disadvantages.
intensive wealthy countries lead the world in municipal waste generation. The solid waste quantity is growing faster than the U.S. population.

The average American consumes 100 times more than an average Ethiopian. As the World Resources Institute has noted, the highest levels of resource use and waste generation [municipal and industrial] tend to occur in the wealthiest cities and among the wealthier groups within cities.

But, the urban poor’s per capita resource use and waste generation tend to be quite low. Thus, densely populated cities contribute immensely to global environmental problems.

All municipal councils should explore ways to use this biomass to generate electricity. They daily collect billions of tons of municipal solid waste generated by households, offices and industries.

Most of them are biodegradable wastes such as food remains, paper products and soiled clothes.

A fair amount of solid waste is covered with soil or burned in inclinators. Still we think garbage as uneconomical. But it is power-packed biomass.

The ashes of the biomass-electricity generation plants can be used for roads and other civil construction works.

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