Sentences with phrase «for wood energy»

They concluded that increased demand for wood energy in industrialized countries will have a significant impact on the amount of available excess forest biomass, taking between 10 and

Mabee and Saddler (2007) reviewed a number of regional and global outlook studies on forest fibre availability to determine the renewable global supply of forest biomass for wood energy production.

Application of the International Tropical Timber Organization guidelines for managing secondary forests can promote the sustainable development of these forests for wood energy production (ITTO, 2002).

Not exact matches

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

McDonald's Canada rolled out the new supplies to the entire nation, reducing its energy, wood and water consumption, resulting in an annual approximate savings of $ 1.3 million for the whole McDonald's Canada system, which means savings for the customers.

Drawers are also designed for kid energy and built of solid pine with dovetailed joinery and wood corner blocks.

The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three - week hunt for his jailbreak partner as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the upstate New York prison that...

Despite their overall satisfaction with the spending plan, the Adirondack Council said they were displeased with a provision that declares wood - based biomass energy to be «carbon - neutral,» encouraging federal support for its expansion.

And all wood - and biomass - burning stoves were replaced with cleaner, modern stoves that use electricity or natural gas for energy.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

Another possibility is «energy woods»: that is, the cultivation of fast - growing trees for fuel.

For people who live in the countryside, the energy office suggested solar heaters and stoves that burn wood chips.

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

Tree stumps and root systems account for approximately 15 % of the energy wood harvested from Finnish forests.

Schlesinger also pointed out that much of the wood raised and harvested in the United States for energy purposes is actually shipped to the European Union, where biomass is currently treated as a carbon - neutral energy source.

It was also suggested that other policies could be explored, for example looking into the EU energy directive to encourage building more with wood.

Intensification of forestry in Russia will result in increasing availability of wood for material and energy uses.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating syEnergy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating syenergy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

The DUP's leader narrowly survived a no - confidence motion following a disastrous attempt to bolster green energy in Northern Ireland by providing subsidies for wood burners.

Asked whether forests can be managed sustainably and still produce wood for energy, Forest Stewardship Council President Corey Brinkema said, «Certainly it's possible.»

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.

«Forests in the United States are robust and sustainably managed, and climate science has consistently and clearly documented the carbon benefits of utilizing forest biomass for energy production,» Senator Susan Collins (R — ME), said on the Senate floor on 3 February, a day after lawmakers approved her amendment adding the wood - burning provision to the energy bill.

He was one of more than 100 scientists that signed a 2014 letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy urging the agency to consider the carbon benefits of using wood for energy.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

According to their findings, the canton of Bern has the greatest potential for sustainably re-using wood to generate energy.

Yet if more used wood in Switzerland was re-used to produce heat or power, this would eliminate the need for numerous shipments of timber abroad, which would save energy, lower costs and cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

Sunitha Sadula, a postdoctoral researcher at UD's Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, works in the lab to extract sugars from wood chips, corn cobs and other forest and farm waste.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

In the United States, wood and wood - derived fuels accounted for nearly 40 million megawatt - hours of electricity generation in 2013, just under 1 percent of the U.S. annual total, according to federal energy data.

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.

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

Ketosis is the process where your body breaks away from burning carbs for energy, the gasoline, and switches to burning the fat stores that you have, the wood.

Writer / director Matt Ross harnesses Viggo's energy for a head - first sprint into the woods of non-conformity but those idealogical woods thin out and soon enough we're face - to - face with reality.

Good for discussing sustainable resource use, fuel - wood crisis, energy and health - 2 million die prematurely every year from smoke from cooking fires!

If you depend on wood and animal waste for energy, there will be no economic development.

The open - pore wood floor with inlaid aluminum continues the yacht theme, plus a floating, transparent center tunnel visualizes the drive system's electrical energy flow for the passengers with blue fiber optics.

Inspired by nature's elements of earth, air, fire, water and wood, experience the healing goodness of nature with signature treatments designed for living with abundant energy.

Being in these woods and meadows is a return to childhood, it regains my life energy and I am trying to share these moments with my camera, the process itself is like a meditation for me.»

At Michael Rosenfeld, veteran artist Mary Bauermeister engaged glass, wood and canvas for «energy sculptures» that address the philosophical paradox of spiritual physicality.

New York City based artist Kristin Jai Klosterman is best known for her sculptural work in metal and wood, and mixed media paintings that deal with the environment, energy and movement.

It is for this reason that the artist relies on a collage of several types of wood, obtaining, as a result, entities of singular beauty containing diverse energies and fragments of history.

As the third story in our series will discuss, there are certainly times when wood energy can be beneficial — but those scenarios tend to play out at much more local scales, in which true waste wood is used for heat and power.

Mixt Greens was built following the USGBC's guidelines for green building and the space includes FSC certified wood, formaldehyde free plywood, zero - VOC paints, renewable and recycled materials and energy efficient appliances, making it not only impressive but totally hip too.

The house is designed for low energy consumption; the family only used 2 cubic meters of wood for heating over the course of an entire year.

Coal actually owes its energy to wood, compressed by geological forces for millennia.

Made with a patented energy - and wood - saving technique, this Corelam collection is perfect for those who move a lot.

CREE, (Creative Renewable Energy & Efficiency), is developing «a hybrid construction system for high - rise buildings which is based predominantly on a renewable raw material - wood.»

According to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), between the months of July and September last year, 50 per cent of the country's electricity was produced primarily by wind and solar farms, as well as wood and nuclear power plants.

«If we assume half of the logging residues are available for energy, then on each acre harvested about 7 green tons of wood are available, which equals about 3 dry tons of wood.»

Today, geothermal, hydro - and nuclear power, together with the historic biofuels of wood and straw, account for about 15 % of our energy use.