USA Today: Wood making comeback as power source

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2009-10-13-wood-power_N.htm

Wood making comeback as power source

By Traci Watson, USA TODAY
One of the world's oldest energy sources is making a comeback.

Across the USA, power plants are turning to wood to make electricity. The move is spurred by state mandates to encourage renewable power and by bills moving through Congress that require more renewable electricity nationwide.

Wood power's rise is "meteoric," says William Perritt, editor of Wood Biomass Market Report. One wood-burning plant started up in 2007, seven in 2008 and a dozen in 2009, he says.

Dozens more are on the drawing board. That includes three 100-megawatt plants, scheduled to start in 2012 that together would crank out enough juice to power up to 270,000 homes.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wow! Maybe we can destroy every single tree on the planet!!!!

How can anyone think of wood as a renewable energy source????:crazy: :silly: :wtf:

[NNadir]

2. Oh goody. One can never get enough PM10 particles in ones lungs.

It is also entirely useless to have old growth forests.

It's funny, I was just reading a paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T6X-4H99917-1&_user=10&_coverDate=12%2F10%2F2005&_alid=1047118454&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=5042&_sort=r&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=170&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5163839a0f974663a96ca9e36670cecd">Forest Ecology and Management 220 (2005) 242–258 on the carbon sequestration capability of boreal systems, reflecting on the wonderful state of affairs obtained by our huge need for toilet paper and shopping catalogues, as recently reported in Audobon Magazine and thinking how much we should really aspire to be more like http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/16/10438/196">Cameroon here is this country by developing the wood fired car.

Have a nice clear cut evening.

[jpak]

4. ummm....they burn coal to produce electricity to enrich uranium here in the US

got yer Hg and PM10 and yer acid rain too...but we will ignore that li'l fun fact - huh...

Have a nice mountain topping....uranium boy.

[wtmusic]

5. They also burn coal to make wind turbines

Assessing threats to the environment accurately only makes my preconceived notions harder to defend!

[NickB79]

6. And China burns coal to make solar panels.

Your point is........?????

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. See what happens when Viagra enters the waste water supply?

All kind of weird shit.

People start putting their bathtubs outside and develop other signs of mental instability.