Environmental aspects for energy from biomass and fossil fuels

In the perspective of different forms of energy (electric energy, thermal power, fuels), the possibility to use conventional fuels or biomass in different forms is largely applied: it is important to verify the aspects of inventories of biomass that is at disposition or that could in the future be produced, in connection with different hypothesis of development of the territory, and from the other side the potentialities of conventional forms. From these inventories it is possible to establish what could be the percentage of the required energy that could be obtained from each type of feedstock. Besides the energetic aspect, it is necessary to evaluate the environmental aspects of these forms of energetic production: these evaluations concern the assessment of requirement for feedstock production, transport and transformation, the effect on greenhouse production and climate change, the potential definition of environmental impacts originating from atmospheric emissions and residuals destination, also the consequences in terms of social and employment aspects; obviously also the aspects concerning industrial costs, political prices for feedstock and fuels, carbon taxes can be considered