Sentences with phrase «burning wood pellets»

But two things became clear to me: Burning the wood pellets immediately releases more CO2 than coal (easy to figure out), and producing wood pellets for Europe's power plants is causing a lot of trees to be chopped down in the U.S. (surprisingly difficult to figure out), which immediately reduces carbon sequestration.

You need a pellet stove to burn wood pellets, though, or a fireplace insert to handle them safely.

[1] Hence large coal plants such as DRAX in the UK are converting to burn wood pellets.

Half of its six 650 megawatt (MW) generators have been converted from coal to burn wood pellets from America.

Pellet stoves are similar to wood stoves but burn wood pellets instead of cordwood and radiate heat off of the appliance.

Such efficiency is achieved by combined heat and power systems, which use wood to produce both heat and electricity, and by some modern furnaces that burn wood pellets made of dried, ground and pressed wood residues.

First, new wood - burning power plants being built in the EU, UK, and even Asia burn wood pellets that are largely made from whole trees, not residues.

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Pellet cookers use a power - driven auger to feed compressed wood pellets from a hopper into a burn pot that produces heat (and smoke) inside the cooking chamber.

The pellet cookers burn 100 percent wood for fuel and the only thing that's automated is the delivery system.

He and his team of researchers advocate a more intensive material use of wood: «Over the mid-term, we need to utilize wood more efficiently, i.e. multiple times as a material, before we burn or turn it into pellets.

Europe's renewable energy targets drive demand for wood pellets Other voices in the forestry sector, including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, said that wood - based energy is renewable because the wood burned is replaced by other trees that take in carbon dioxide, making the process carbon - neutral.

It is the wood pellet grills that burn those pellets.

Biomass heating systems burn wood, predominantly in the form of pellets, to provide buildings with space heating, process heating and hot water requirements.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

I know that pellet stoves are cleaner burning than wood stoves but I read that making the pellets themselves is extremely CO2 - intensive.

That hasn't stopped Europe from claiming to cut its carbon footprint, at least on paper, by cutting and burning trees — and increasingly doing so with wood pellets exported from the Southeastern United States.

Modern Wood Burning Pellet Stoves With high energy prices and constant talks of economic recession, wood stoves are back in vogue in many parts of the world where wood can be had cheaply.

I know that pellet stoves are cleaner burning than wood stoves but I read that making the pellets themselves is

Conversion of coal plants to burn wood, dedicated new - build wood burning power plants as well as combined heat and power and biomass boilers for heating are creating huge new demand for wood pellets.

The idea is simple: trees will regrow and recapture the carbon released in the burning of wood pellets, making the process supposedly carbon - neutral.

Recent investigation of the largest pellet producer in the US, Enviva, revealed that they were sourcing wood from remaining pockets of endangered Atlantic coastal forests and then shipping them across the Atlantic to burn with coal.

The subsidy pays you more if you burn more wood pellets.

The researchers found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants, such as the Drax facility in North Yorkshire — which has transitioned some of its coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK government subsidies — actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.

Italians consume 40 % of all the pellet burned in Europe while Italy produces only about 10 % of the wood it burns.

Wood pellets have become a popular fuel, but scientists are divided on whether burning wood to produce heat and power can be considered climate friendly.

There are plenty of proven technologies out there — including cleaner - burning cookstoves with better ventilation that use wood or crop pellets.

Pellets are made of recycled compressed materials and create less ash and creosote than wood burning fireplaces (meaning less of a fire hazard due to build up).

A 2015 analysis prepared for the American Forest and Paper Association, a trade association, concluded that most wood pellets produced in the U.S., both for domestic burning and for export to the U.K., were prepared from whole trees.

But Drax's giant wood - burning boilers are fueled almost entirely by 6.5 million tons of wood pellets shipped annually across the Atlantic.

Yet just a month later, EU ministers rubber - stamped the existing carbon accounting rules, reaffirming that the burning of wood pellets is renewable energy.

«If in year one, you burn 10 tons of wood pellets, you put 10 tons of carbon into the atmosphere,» Booth explained.

In particular, she evaluates whether generating energy via the burning of wood pellets, or biomass, puts less carbon into the atmosphere than burning coal.

To avoid so - called «double counting,» when those wood pellets are burned overseas, the CO2 sent into the atmosphere over Europe is not counted because of another assumption: new trees are quickly replanted in North Carolina, thus theoretically and immediately soaking up the CO2 emitted across the Atlantic.

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

And if we are going to burn wood (such as I do, with a pellet stove), we need to make sure it is as efficient as possible.

OPG has tested biomass burns and blends at all four of its plants — Nanticoke, Thunder Bay, Atikokan and Lambton — but so far the most progress has been at Atikokan, a 200 - megawatt plant that in July successfully burned 100 per cent wood pellets for a day.

Which makes me a bit torn on this one: While biomass electric generation is certainly a good thing, and anything that gets us (the collective human we) away from burning coal is undeniably positive environmentally, it seems to me that there is a better solution than processing wood pellets in Florida and shipping them to the EU to generate power... Even if it appears from Green Circle's estimate of net energy gain comes out positive.

Burning wood, trash or pellets releases particulates and carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and often strains local supplies of sustainably harvested biomass while robbing the soil of much - needed nutrient recycling.

* Hint: look for a system which is fully automatic (okay, take a moment to yearn for the rush of heat when opening the pot - belly to add a log and the old - fashioned levers for adjusting airflow) and which uses pellets or another form of fuel designed to deliver consistent burning performance (and say goodbye to «a man who cuts his own wood is twice warmed»).

(Dunster was also architect for BedZED) The Jubilee Wharf project in this old Cornish town has a big zero in carbon emissions, four 6 Kw turbines, and a wood pellet biomass boiler that burns «cleanly and efficiently what is effectively compacted rubbish.»

is carbon - neutral, challenging renewable energy investments in the U.S., Europe, and Asia where imported wood pellets are burned as a replacement for coal.

The basis of the flawed logic leading to U.S. wood being burned to power Europe, conservationists say, is an accounting formula: According to E.U. policy, wood pellets are considered a carbon - neutral fuel source, based on the principle that regenerating forests will eventually recapture the carbon released when the trees were cut.

Right now, several companies are producing wood pellets — a form of biomass energy that is burned in European power plants — out of trees from clear - cut forests in the American South.

Over half the wood burnt at Drax comes from the southern United States, including wood sourced by the pellet company Enviva from biodiverse forests.

Be Community Aware — Many local ordinances prohibit the burning of wood, manufactured logs, or pellets on days or nights when the amount of particulate matter in the air reaches a predetermined level.

Stoves come in all shapes and sizes and can burn wood, coal or pellets.