Sentences with phrase «burn wood wastes»

Not exact matches

Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?

Five of the six families involved in the pilot project received a multi-fuel burning stove, with waste wood fuel as the primary heat source.

The wood content can be burnt in waste incineration, although for everyday use it conforms to fire protection standards.

The project is testing three approaches: wood - burning stoves that are more efficient and thus leave less black - carbon residue; stoves that burn natural gas produced from waste; and solar cookers.

Speller believes it will be suitable for integrated power stations which at different times of year could burn Miscanthus, wood chips from coppicing, straw or even domestic waste.

The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste) and coal.

The main sources of arsenic pollution include certain pesticides and herbicides, wood preservatives, phosphate fertilizers, industrial waste, mining activities, coal burning and smelting (17, 18, 19).

Just as incinerators often start out burning forestry waste, and end up using virgin wood once supply of «waste» runs out, so too anaerobic digestion plants may begin by using food waste, and end up utilizing forest products or other «biofuels» grown deliberately for the purpose.

In addition, using coal in large centralized plants dramatically reduces the burning of fuel wood and waste that causes enormous indoor air pollution in developing nations.

In the Northwest, biomass electricity is primarily created by the controlled burning of wood waste that otherwise would be dumped in landfills, burned in open air or left to decompose.

Most often the wood waste is burned to heat water and create steam, which flows through a turbine to produce electricity.

That gas is burned to create heat and electricity, or is refined as a fuel for cars... Kristianstad also burns gas emanating from an old landfill and sewage ponds, as well as wood waste from flooring factories and tree prunings.

when we lived in Freiburg, wood pellets were generally considered the greenest option, since they were formed from timber waste and burn efficiently.

Even based on the false assumption that only wood waste, not whole trees, are being burnt, Booth found that «up to 95 percent of cumulative CO2 emitted [by the biomass burning power plants] represent a net addition to the atmosphere over decades.»

We'd be burning wood chips, switch grass and maybe human waste round the clock (I visited a plant not far from Venice Beach where they burn sewage.)

Similar to charcoal, the process involves slowly burning scrap wood and waste materials from agriculture to produce a carbon rich by - product that can be used as a fertiliser.

Depending on where and how you live, this is definitely an interesting option instead of burning wood, using geothermal power, or even heating with organic waste.

Burning wood and wood waste to generate electricity will result in net carbon emissions over the next several decades even under the best - case scenarios promoted by the industry, according to a recently released report.

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

[I must say tho» that I also burn wood for heat, primarily waste lumber]

It also matters whether the wood used is waste that would otherwise be left to rot or burn, or whether it is taken from mature trees.

At a time when 6.59 million households in the UK are considered «fuel poor» (spending more than 10 % of household income on heating), paying power companies to burn wood is a disastrous waste of money.