P38X2
Minister of Fire
You guys do the quick math on these figures? Even the lower 1600T/day total listed above is 66 tons PER HOUR! That's nutty!
What else would you expect an 'environmental science' teacher to say?
Oil causes global warming.
Coal is too dirty.
Nuclear is too dangerous.
Wood causes deforestation.
Wind turbines are dangerous to raptors...
These nut jobs would have us all huddled together shivering around a single smouldering cow pie to stay warm if they had their way.
The Berlin biopower plant has a 20 year deal with the local utility to supply renewable power. The cost per KW is not competitive with fossil fuel but far less expensive then the alternatives like solar and wind. It is also "dispatchable" IE they can generate power 365 days per year 24 hours per day when its needed unlike the alternatives.
They plan to be pulling in 1600 green tons per day of wood chips. The major benefit to the region is it creates a market for low grade wood which is one component of the revenue that landowners consider when they decide to cut or maintain their woodlands. Biomass chips don't sell for much at the stump but it is revenue. Landowners may start doing timberstand improvement (intermediate thinning cuts)that they may not have done without the low grade market. The local sawmill in Milan is doubling their production capability. Pellets are best made with sawdust from sawmills so even though a lot of low grade wood goes to Berlin there still may be more overall pellet production.
if you're ever near to Berlin, stop by the Moffett House Museum...they have an excellent collection of material about the hayday of the Brown and Brown company that ran the mill there for....well since the dawn of time. They have some photos of mountains of logs...seriously, mountains. The river choked with logs. In its time I'm sure it was amazing. At that time they were measuring in millions of tons per year. Unfathomable. Birthplace of the retractable tape measure!I'm still trying to wrap my head around doing anything with wood at 1600 Tons a day.
What else would you expect an 'environmental science' teacher to say?
Oil causes global warming.
Coal is too dirty.
Nuclear is too dangerous.
Wood causes deforestation.
Wind turbines are dangerous to raptors...
These nut jobs would have us all huddled together shivering around a single smouldering cow pie to stay warm if they had their way.
I'm surprised his teacher didn't also add that if everyone switched to solar power the sun would burn out in five years. There's just no pleasing some people.
Again its actual science not propaganda, it actually addresses sustainability issues based on science. I mean if you consider biodiversity assessments outside of school and soil testing full of BS then what are you standing on? Here is food for thought, all of our modern farming techniques depend on fossil fuels: transportation, planting, harvesting , fertilizers, tilling, and picking it up at the store it. As oil gets more expensive what you think is going to happen to your food ?I'm surprised his teacher didn't also add that if everyone switched to solar power the sun would burn out in five years. There's just no pleasing some people.
Keep in mind that's green tons right out of the woods. A lot different than dry pellet tons.
Pretty pictures but I still don't see backup for the assertion.
One country has regulated forestry practices, the other country is not therefore it's deforested. By the way the middle of the page is a border between the two . If you look on Google maps you can see the difference in the two countries same island but two different countries .
True but as NH is part of a Developed country we consume more energy then those who are underdeveloped. In one year as a single fuel source we can clear cut NH just for comparison on how much energy the state needs.One country has food one was does not theres a lot more going on in Haiti then bad forestry practices. Picture is quite eye opening.
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