Biomass
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This Bioenergy Day, We Check in with School’s New Wood-Pellet Heating System
Happy Bioenergy Day! Today, we’re celebrating a significant accomplishment of bioenergy at a Washington school district. It’s been about a year since a new wood pellet boiler was installed at a Northport school in northeast Washington, a project in collaboration… Continue reading
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A win-win: School gets energy-efficient wood heating, DNR pilots bioenergy in a public building
Northport School District Superintendent Don Baribault had an expensive problem on his hands: An old diesel boiler in the preschool-through-eighth-grade building on the Northport Elementary/Middle/High School campus was failing. It needed constant maintenance, but the district didn’t have the budget… Continue reading
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Hardwoods and Renewable Energy Drive Community Anticipation for Rural Communities Partnership Initiative
In Raymond, Wash., a lumber mill owned by the Port of Willapa Harbor sits abandoned. Piles of alder seem stuck in time after being cut and dried, but never quite making it to shipment to become the products they were… Continue reading
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How does woody biomass become biofuel?
Sure, it’s possible to create ecologically sustainable biofuels from forest slash, small logs, branches, twigs, and other types of woody debris left after timber harvests and forest health treatments, such as thinning. The question is not just ‘how?’ but ‘where?’… Continue reading
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DNR weekend reading: Native plants, diagonal trees make better biofuel
Here are links to reading selections about climate, wildlife, the environment and other science news published recently by science journals, universities, websites, and other sources: Scientific American: Food versus Fuel: Native Plants Make Better Ethanol New research indicates that native grasses… Continue reading
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Washington Forest Biomass Supply Assessment finds room to grow commercial forest biomass industry
Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark speaks about biomass tonight (March 14) at 7 pm & 10 pm on TVW’s The Impact Announced at a news conference in Olympia yesterday, the Washington Forest Biomass Supply Assessment is now online. The… Continue reading
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DNR’s Forest Biomass Initiative part of project that brought 34 jobs to rural Springdale
This summer’s reopening of a long-closed lumber mill in the small town of Springdale, north of Spokane, is an early and visible success in DNR’s Forest Biomass Initiative. The reopening of the Springdale Lumber Mill has created 34 new jobs… Continue reading