From pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com  Fri Apr 27 17:19:08 2007
From: pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com (Tem Tarriktar)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:19:08 -0700
Subject: [Energy] Biomass solutions
Message-ID: <1696771D-79A5-4FE8-91C6-59AA0C9F51CC@mountainastrologer.com>

Hi -- Biomass and
Sequestering carbon ... some recent findings. Check out this article.
Will this approach work locally?
--Tem

http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18589/




From RayDarby at SustainableEnergyGroup.com  Sat Apr 28 18:33:30 2007
From: RayDarby at SustainableEnergyGroup.com (Ray Darby)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:33:30 -0700
Subject: [Energy] Biomass solutions
References: <1696771D-79A5-4FE8-91C6-59AA0C9F51CC@mountainastrologer.com>
Message-ID: <000d01c789fe$658bd5b0$0301a8c0@rayslaptop>

Thanks Tem - 

This was very interesting.  In terms of whether that technology would be appropriate locally or not I'm not sure.  But I do know we have a tremendous fuel resource here in the form of too many small trees and brush - we hear about it all the time as "an extreme fire hazard."  This fuel is just sitting there waiting to either destroy our community, in the case of a fire, or fuel our community, in the case of its use as a biomass material.  The big question is "what's the best way to harvest and use our local biomass to produce heat and power?"  This is an important question seeing as how we've got millions of tons of the stuff right here in our own backyard!  Do we have any biomass experts in our circle?

I enjoyed many of the comments following the post too - did you notice this one and read the link it included? -

"Some of the tech are not quite ready, of course, but there are several things to like here:
http://ergosphere.blogspot.com/2006/11/sustainability-energy-independence-and.html
It could allow replacement of natural gas and coal fired electricial generation and offset some liquid fossil fuels.  Transitioning to electrified transport would dramatically reduce the liquid fuels requirement, hence some of the surplus char could be sequestered."

While biomass is one area I'm not very strong in, I'm convinced it is one of our best, locally available sources of energy for the future.  Thanks for keeping us up on such things Tem,

Warmly,

Ray Darby, President
Sustainable Energy Group Inc
530-273-4422

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> Hi -- Biomass and
> Sequestering carbon ... some recent findings. Check out this article.
> Will this approach work locally?
> --Tem
> 
> http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18589/
> 
> 
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