A New Kind of Recycling: Junk Wood To Energy
Filed in archive Biomass by Reden Rodriguez on September 12, 2006

wastes in North America. It's a growing trend, as more and more people are beginning to see just how substitutable biomass can be. A 2005 study by the Natural Resources Research Institute shows that plenty of biomass is available. Within logging sites in the US around 700,000 metric tons per year is available. That's just wood left behind at logging sites. Harvesting small brush and dead trees could add another 800,000 tons per year, not a small and insignificant number.
At a heating value averaging 10 Gj/metric ton, this amount could be enough to produce enough power for the local logging community to enable them to simply rely on themselves.
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