Portugal has a consistent path of investment in renewable sources, without this having translated to date into the misfortune that some insist on anticipating.

This experiment used pyrolysis and flash light irradiation to bring about this transformation and the results could not be more promising: not only does biomass produce hydrogen, which can then be used to produce energy, it also produces biochar, a solid carbon biochar that can be reused for fertiliser or to manufacture electrodes. In addition, biomass also absorbs, removes, and stores carbon dioxide.

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