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Set in rolling acres of productive farmland, remote and easily defended, it has a bio-mass boiler for heat (ie it burns wood) and has recently recommissioned its original water driven mini hydro-elecric generator.
Checkmate Dungeekin 2009
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For instance an acre of hemp produces as mush paper as four acres of trees, from thre bio-mass you can get ethanol at cheaper than you can produce it from corn, from the seeds you get oil for cooking or for bio-diseal, frpom its fiberous stems you can make cloth.
Matthew Yglesias » Marijuana Legalization More Popular than Key Conservative Leaders 2009
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And then the discovery of the hot water vents, finding that up until 1977 we had missed over 50 percent of the bio-mass on planet earth...
Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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Its not the license as much as with the entire system in which we gauge the marine bio-mass.
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But, re-designed as modular steam-generators, series-built reactors could become replacement-boilers for existing power-generation stations or for new facilities to convert coal or other bio-mass into fuel or feedstock to replace petroleum.
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And then the discovery of the hot water vents, finding that up until 1977 we had missed over 50 percent of the bio-mass on planet earth...
Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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What happens then is tropical forests will stop holding as much carbon in the form of bio-mass or tree trunks because there will be less growth, less carbon fixation and less carbon pulled out of the air, and that carbon will go back into the atmosphere.
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Its not the license as much as with the entire system in which we gauge the marine bio-mass.
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Exposing urban soil will dramatically increase plant bio-mass, creating wildlife habitat and new places for city people to enjoy.
Replacing Dead Urban Spaces with Living Habitat Jared Braiterman 2010
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Exposing urban soil will dramatically increase plant bio-mass, creating wildlife habitat and new places for city people to enjoy.
Jared Braiterman: Replacing Dead Urban Spaces with Living Habitat 2010
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