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The Question About Energy! Well, you may say renewable energy sources will fill the gap and make our environment a much better place to live in, and consequently reduce or even balance the danger of the global warming that everyone is concerned about these days! Wrong, renewable energy will not be able to fill the gap of the missing crude oil, which is, as we are all aware, a big part of our daily lives. What is Biomass Energy? Despite huge increases in the price of crude oil during 2006 and 2007, as well as an increase in the coal prices, the production cost of various bio-energy fuels still do not match the production prices of fossil fuels, such as coal. This means that the present scenario for the commercially produced bio-fuel is still far from being realistic for the international market in general. What is Co-Firing? There are a number of factors which can affect co-firing in one way or another. Some of these factors are purely technical, others are non-technical. Many of these challenges do not apply to fossil fuels, and that is what makes co-firing with biomass a more challenging area, trying to establish itself in a more competitive environment where a number of systems and fuels are being tested and marketed at the present time. Co-firing, therefore, will need more support and more time to smooth out its various problems before it can compete commercially with fossil fuels.