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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
As the sun sets on an $11.4 million federal effort to boost Maine’s wood pellet industry, early returns seem to indicate that the investment was a sound one. The U.S. Department of Forestry spent the money in the Fuels for Public Buildings grant to help bring 24 biomass conversion projects to fruition in schools, hospitals...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change proposed new sustainability criteria for biomass sourcing last September and a comment period wrapped up at the end of November, but the official standards are yet to be released. As proposed, a biomass power facility would have to demonstrate that 70 percent of the wood...
Friday, May 3, 2013
Severe weather swings caused by climate change are occurring more frequently and cause problems with drought, blow downs, insect infestations and invasive species in Minnesota. Minnesota State Forester Forrest Boe, said the state presents challenges and opportunities for thermal biomass utilization.
Boe said one of the...
Friday, April 26, 2013
German Pellets plans to open a second giant wood pellet plant in U.S.. Just as it is readying to opening a 500,000-metric ton wood pellet production facility in Woodville, Texas, German Pellets announced that it plans to build an additional 1 million-metric ton plant in Louisiana, with construction slated to begin this...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Woody Biomass Joint Venture is a partnership between the USDA Forest Service and US Endowment for Forestry and Communities, that began working in 2010 to establish a US/Canadian comprehensive wood-to-energy database. The searchable database open to anyone with interest in the state of wood to energy conversion at a...
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Department of Sustainable Biomaterials at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University hosted visitors last month from as far away as New York and Guatemala at the Thomas M. Brooks Forest Products Center. The occasion? Demonstrations of the Department's new portable biomass power plant.
About the size of a Mini...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Australia could be fueling its airplanes with plantation timber and waste from crops within three to five years according to a key research institute. The Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is part of an international researchers team aiming to make five percent of the worlds aviation fuel out of...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Popular Mechanics magazine has just launched an online ballot that allows people to choose which Wood Stove Design Challenge finalist they think is most innovative.
The Wood Stove Design Challenge was launched by the Alliance for Green Heat to bring more innovation to a popular, widely used renewable energy device....
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Wood is an amazing material. What other natural resource is completely renewable in a sustainable manner and comes in both great volume and in great variety? Wood's structure enables it to function well at the molecular, fiber, and macro level in an unbelievable array of uses and situations.
Wood’s “easy” construction via...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Ash produced by the burning of tree biomass appears to be a suitable fertilizer for radiata pine plantations, according to new research.
The ash that underwent tests in this study did not display any toxicity in the biotests carried out. Chemically, it was characterised as having a high, but not corrosive pH, an adequate...
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