The Hotchkiss School, a private (and very wealthy) prep school in the next town over has just put their new biomass boiler plant on-line. They have two Messersmith steam boilers making steam for all the buildings on campus with low-pressure steam. The estimate an annual fuel consumption of 5400 tons of wood chips! Thought you guys would get a kick out of it. If you're nearby, they offer tours of the plant. I need to get over there and check it out one of these days.
Hotchkiss School biomass plant.
Hotchkiss School biomass plant.
![Now that's a boiler! Now that's a boiler!](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotchkiss.org%2Fimages%2Fnews%2Fbiom1.jpg&hash=6bd9bd553dff99842dabad1514aa93e2)