Biomass equivalent to 7% of global energy use is lost to fire every year

Biomass is an undervalued carrier of energy with an electricity-equivalent energy density 4x that of Li-ion batteries. Current open air burning causes widespread air pollution and unused biomass decays to release methane, both affecting the climate.

Photo Credit: Neil Palmer, CIAT, India Burning, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons