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Students create survey to understand challenges facing biomass production
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Examples of agricultural biomass resources produced by the researchers. A: Canola, B: Corn, C: Switchgrass, D: Wheat. Photos provided by M. Nazari and M. Antar
Renewable and sustainable agricultural biomass resources in Canada have the potential to become a uniquely sustainable source of biologically derived compounds, materials, energy and fuels. However, there are still some significant challenges to the effective and efficient utilization of biomass. Attitudes to biomass production vary among nations and jurisdictions, in part based on the availability of related resources.
To enhance our understanding of the perceived challenges facing biomass production, a group of graduate students at McGill University are conducting a survey, with the support of BioFuelNet, including general and specific questions, mainly related to climate change, sustainable tec