{"id":497542,"date":"2024-01-19T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=497542"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:23:43","slug":"bamboo-a-renewable-energy-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/bamboo-a-renewable-energy-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo, a renewable energy source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already used in food and furniture, bamboo can also serve as a renewable source of energy due to how quickly it grows, according to a study by the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences. After pretreatment, the lignocellulose in bamboo, which accounts for 70% of its composition, can be converted into ethanol, gas, biochar, and oil. A refinery in Assam, India, uses around 500,000 tons (t) of fresh bamboo per year to produce 4,900 t of ethanol. The waste is used to generate electricity. The calorific value of bamboo species varies from 18 to 21 kilojoules per gram (kj\/g), which is higher than other biomasses, such as sugarcane bagasse, at 16.6 kj\/g. A comparison of 15 species reveals the contrasts: <em>Bambusa bambos<\/em> grows up to 30 meters (m) high and 18 centimeters (cm) in diameter, while <em>Dendrocalamuposis oldhami<\/em> is 9 m high and 8 cm in diameter. China, one of the world&#8217;s largest producers, is home to some 500 species, predominantly m\u014ds\u014d bamboo, which accounts for 73% of the total. There are 258 species in Brazil, which produces nearly 150 t per year. Bamboo is a perennial plant that regenerates easily and produces for more than 30 years, but it can take space from other plants, reducing diversity (<em>GCB-Bioenergy<\/em>, May).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to its rapid growth, bamboo can serve as a renewable energy source","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":497485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[227],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-497542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497543,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497542\/revisions\/497543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497542"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=497542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}