About two - thirds of the 2 quads
of wood energy is in the 15 main timber - producing states in the Southeast and Northwest, and growth will track lumber and paper production.
Fuelwood is the predominant form
of wood energy in rural areas of most developing countries, while charcoal remains a significant energy source in many African, Asian and Latin American urban households.
Changes in energy policy in several parts of the world have favoured the development
of wood energy - based systems.
Widely differing systems of production and use
of wood energy exist throughout the world, and there are likely to be a range of responses to the recent shifts in energy policy in various countries.
Supply and demand of traditional biomass, liquid cellulosic biofuels, residues from the forest industry and other forms
of wood energy will be affected differently by different factors across developed and developing countries.
4.1 To what extent forestry will contribute to future energy production will depend on a series of factors: the ability of wood - based energy to meet the recent energy policy objectives, the socioeconomic and environmental costs and benefits
of wood energy production, and the policies and institutions that determine forestry practices.
The development of economically competitive technology for the production of liquid cellulosic biofuels will cause a major shift in the importance
of wood energy.
Improvements in the efficiency of utilizing woodfuel could provide significant amounts
of wood energy worldwide.
Our clients benefit from a network of expert partners, including the Mann Naturenergie Group, a leading German supplier
of wood energy solutions, who has deployed over 70 MW of wood - fired heating capacity.
Not exact matches
The company, which is pre-revenue but has several million dollars in investment, is developing a form
of clean
energy made from the waste
wood that is plentiful in Oregon, where HM3 is based.
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.
That sunlight was transformed into chemical
energy in the leaves
of trees and used to form
wood.
Our petro - industrial civilization produces and consumes a seemingly diverse suite
of energies: oil, coal, ethanol, hydroelectricity, gasoline, geothermal heat, hydrogen, solar power, propane, uranium, wind,
wood, dung.
A team
of scientists and Ph.D's, known as the Rate Group, gathered fossilized
wood samples (some specimens previously aged at 250 million years) and coal, from the Department
of Energy Coal Sample Bank.
We could solve a good bit
of the
energy crisis by using them like
wood so that the fires light the night - time sky.
They provide the boost
of energy that needed to make it over the river and through the
woods.
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.
We maintain environmentally healthy practices, including key cards
of wood instead
of plastic,
energy efficient lighting and strong recycling policies.
Touching as much
wood as I can lay my hands on it looks like Andy could be on a decent injury free streak and he certainly looks to be full
of energy and commitment at the moment.
Biomass is a term that covers different types
of organic material that can be processed and burned to produce
energy, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and can include materials like
wood chips, agricultural crops, and sewage.
Drawers are also designed for kid
energy and built
of solid pine with dovetailed joinery and
wood corner blocks.
Over the past year he has diverted his
energy to the many theories, encouraged by some disturbing and unanswered questions, surrounding the death
of David Kelly, the government's highly respected weapons expert whose body was found in a
wood near his Oxfordshire home on July 18 2003.
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...
«Before policy makers can integrate
energy considerations into food security interventions, it is necessary to consider the state
of wood fuel research and how it might be expanded to better serve social needs,» Mendum said.
Promising solutions include extending and connecting protected natural areas, deceleration
of population growth, decreasing the consumption
of meat and
energy, cleaner and more efficient production
of energy and
wood, combating waste and raising awareness
of consumers.
There are a host
of other factors surrounding
wood - fuel
energy use in sub-Saharan Africa that remain poorly understood, Mendum said.
The papermaking process doesn't just produce pristine rolls
of paper; it also generates
wood scraps, chemicals and other by - products rich in potential
energy.
«You are growing
wood or grasses in a renewable way in some sort
of energy plantation to produce biomass,» he says.
Inside the envelope, solar heated air circulates, pumping and boosting geothermal
energy from beneath the house and storing it within the
wood mass
of the walls, where it is doled out gradually.
The heart
of the system is a south - facing sun space within the envelope that is dominated by windows and which therefore soaks up lots
of solar
energy, filling the house's
wood walls with thermal
energy that in turn radiates into the primary living space.
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.
A report in the journal Science touts the
energy potential
of an old resource —
wood.
Another possibility is «
energy woods»: that is, the cultivation
of fast - growing trees for fuel.
At the beginning
of the 1980s, the Finnish Conservative party launched a campaign to create
energy self - sufficiency through
energy woods and CHP.
Now they have largely closed in on the goal, primarily by embracing smart updates
of traditional ways to tap renewable
energy sources — sun, wind, biological gases, and
wood.
This characteristic increases the climate impact
of stump
wood energy.
Tree stumps and root systems account for approximately 15 %
of the
energy wood harvested from Finnish forests.
These models provide new information on the impacts
of stump
wood energy on the carbon sink capacity
of forests, the biodiversity
of forest nature and the soil structure
of recovery areas.
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.
The methodology proposed in this study could help logging companies and local authorities predict economic and social effects from the utilization
of energy wood.
A doctoral dissertation completed at the University
of Eastern Finland analyzed the potential
of energy wood resources in the Leningrad region
of Russia at regional and district levels.
The analysis showed that intensification
of forestry in the region could significantly increase availability
of energy wood.
Maximization
of sustainable
energy wood supply will create new working places and business opportunities.
In the scenario Allowable, the availability
of energy wood increased from 4.1 to 6.3 Mm3 (+54 %) compared with the scenario Recent.
The «Allowable» scenario shows the potential
of energy wood assuming full utilization
of the annual allowable cut, based on current logging technology and increasing sawn timber production.
However, several challenges like low productivity
of felling operations and technical accessibility
of forests have to be solved to intensify
energy wood supply in the regions.
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 sy
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 sy
energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as
wood pellet or
wood chip heating systems.
And we selected materials [
wood and resin] to be efficient reflectors
of sound
energy.
The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent
of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent
of the
energy used comes from
wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent
of a household's income.