Natural Resources committee  If I can add to what was said, I mentioned there is large potential, and that potential comes from some of the feedstocks that I talked about that are not being used—forest residues or straw, which currently is mostly not being used. Also, if you look at just the amount of biomas

Natural Resources committee  In the beginning, when the industry has to grow—and I especially focused on the lignocellulosic biomass industry, which has to grow—initial incentives will kick-start the economy, and then, later on, once the economy is going, the government might not need to do an investment, as

Natural Resources committee  The construction emissions are the lowest component of emissions over a life cycle. You are looking at even less than 1% of the total life-cycle emissions that you are considering when you compare this with a fossil-fuel plant. Overall, then, this is a very low component. The maj

Natural Resources committee  In terms of the yields, I'll probably have to get you the number, but typically the yield for renewable natural gas goes at 30% to 40%, or 0.3 to 0.4 kilograms of renewable natural gas that you could produce per kilogram of biomass. To get to 500,000 tonnes, however, that's what

Natural Resources committee  How much to replace that will depend on what my baseline is, so what I'm comparing with.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for your question. If you think of, let's say, 500,000 tonnes of biomass annually, it's equivalent to about 1,500 tonnes of biomass per day of processing. Now, in that area it will depend upon what type of feedstock you are using to support the plant. If you are lookin

Natural Resources committee  I'll comment on the key aspect, in terms of the investment that is needed. Any of these that you were to do would need to be a partnership between the public and private sectors. Only then can you go to these larger plants. I can get the specific numbers to you concerning what th

Natural Resources committee  We'll have to look at it in terms of the investment, but on the scale we are talking about, the large forest industry plants are at the same scale, so the amount of investment needed to build these plants would be similar. You're processing half a million tonnes of biomass per ye

Natural Resources committee  Some of the numbers—

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The number for, let's say, the natural gas for power, if I have to give you a number, would be somewhere in the range of 400 to 430 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour. There is a range for that.

Natural Resources committee  That's natural gas, yes.

Natural Resources committee  If I have to take the renewable portion, probably the renewable portion would be almost 60% to 70% less, because we don't take the combustion emissions into account. I can get back to you with the exact number, but key are the combustion emissions, which we consider for biomass a

Natural Resources committee  I'll have to say 50% to 60% less than that.

Natural Resources committee  If you think about a tonne of biomass, a tonne of biomass can give you about 83 kilograms of hydrogen. In my remarks, I said that there is a significant amount in terms of the million tonnes of biomass that are available. Just as forest residue, there are 20 million tonnes. You w

Natural Resources committee  Thank you.