How to Use bioenergy in a Sentence

bioenergy

noun
  • Bio-tar, long a bioenergy villain, could turn into a goldmine!
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Some of it would be dedicated to bioenergy crops, or plants burned for fuel.
    — Mark Gongloff, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The surge was largely brought on by demand for wood pellets for bioenergy, the authors of the study found.
    — Saul Elbein, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Amid the debate, many experts are wary of dismissing bioenergy out of hand.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2022
  • The rest is emitted by bioenergy and coal, and much of the coal output is from old or abandoned mines rather than active sites.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Wind is nowhere to be found, while solar would account for 2 percent and bioenergy for 1 percent.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The overall goal of huge offshore seaweed farms is to provide biomass to be used to generate bioenergy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Cushman and his team are also looking at it as an alternative bioenergy.
    — Bridget Shirvell, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Right now, the fastest-growing energy sources are solar, wind, hydropower and bioenergy.
    — Mirjana Perkovic, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Several hurdles must be overcome to make bioenergy from seaweed an option on a large scale, however.
    — Annie Sneed, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Brazil has Rubens Ometto, the man behind the world’s biggest bioenergy firm and its first ethanol billionaire.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Here are four graphs showing coal, oil, natural gas, and bioenergy in the SSPs and in Sky.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Focus on investing in backup sources, like nuclear and bioenergy, to pick up the slack that renewables can’t cover.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Still, the report notes that a future without the widespread use of bioenergy will require additional climate action to make up for it.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Money for bioenergy technologies have gone to research renewable fuels from nonfood sources.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Most divisive is the industry’s claim to battle climate change by replacing dirty fossil fuels with clean bioenergy.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • One, called bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, involves planting trees or crops, which take up carbon from the air, and then burning them to produce energy.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • In particular, the report is cautious about the potential implications of bioenergy crops grown at large scales.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The chief strategy is bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, but full exploitation would require a continent-sized area of land now used for crops and grazing.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The agency categorizes hydropower and bioenergy, as well as solar and wind, as renewables.
    — David Hodari, WSJ, 11 May 2021
  • For instance, the widespread use of strategies such as bioenergy — like growing corn to produce ethanol — could lead to the creation of new deserts or other land degradation, the authors said.
    — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There are concerns over the amount of land required for mass tree planting or for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and the possibility that could clash with land needed to grow food.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • Achieving a fair shift from coal, oil, and gas to solar, wind, bioenergy, and hydropower will require efforts to train workers in new skills and build local supply chains, the report said.
    — Megan Rowling, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Some is sent to a bioenergy fuel producer; edible surplus is donated to a local charity.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2018
  • Limiting the amount of land converted to bioenergy crops could lessen the unintended damage, but would also reduce any climate benefits.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The study offers a roadmap for scientists and industry partners to turn one of bioenergy’s biggest obstacles into a powerful resource for the future.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • China is already the world's market leader in hydropower, bioenergy for electricity and heat, and electric vehicles.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In Fife, for example, Scotland's largest distillery is almost done constructing an on-site bioenergy plant that will meet most of the distillery's energy needs.
    — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2011
  • The initial version of the taxonomy labels bioenergy as green, but doesn’t include nuclear energy and natural gas, although this may be revised.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Verbio, a company producing ethanol from local sources, has been operating on the site of the refinery, feeding bioenergy into the city’s heating system.
    — New York Times, 23 May 2022

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