ANDALUCÍA The agriculture business in Andalucía, second only to tourism in terms of revenue, is increasingly turning to the use of alternativre energies. One of these, perhaps the most useful agriculturally, is what is being called biomass but bares a strong, if much larger, resemblance to the compost heap at the end of the garden. It is considerably more significant, though, inasmuch as it uses the remains of such large scale production as tomato and vegetable plantations, olive oil processing (orujo, and otherwise highly poisonous, and the olive stones) and wood, turning it all into pellets for use in boilers and other heat-making processes. Curiously, it is hotels and restaurants -the tourist industry- that buys most of the pellets. For instance the Escuela de Hostelería y Turismo La Laguna de Baeza, in Jaén, recently installed a biomass boiler that heats the water as well as the school itself, which turns into large savings.>
