When living things die, whether plant or animal, their decomposing remains become storehouses of usable energy. Take wood, for instance. The discovery of fire allowed people to convert wood into ...

California needs to burn vegetation both for wildfire mitigation and to generate power. So why do biomass energy projects ...

Tons of biomass used to be hauled out of New Mexico to paper mills in the Northwest. Today, Local Energy converts woodchips like these (a pile at the former Duke City Lumber in Espanola) to energy for ...

Massachusetts is once again revisiting wood-burning biomass power regulations, and the public, it seems, is not pleased with the plan. The state’s Department of Energy Resources held a virtual hearing ...

It was once thought that this new ecosystem would take carbon out of the atmosphere immediately. However, recent research suggests that for approximately 20 years this new ecosystem actually generates ...

As California ramps up attempts to reduce woodland fuels for destructive wildfires a parallel effort has been emerging to both keep that woody waste out of landfills and perhaps help with the state’s ...

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When scientists think of a “biomass” fuel, organic materials like wood pellets, timber scraps or other plant matter that can be burned typically comes to mind. But recent votes by the Georgia Public ...