Sentences with phrase «use of wood waste»

Not exact matches

«So instead of taking corn and extracting its sugars to make ethanol, we're making use of the stalks and cobs left over after the corn is harvested, as well as other kinds of waste like wood chips and rice hulls.»

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research into using agricultural waste to make paper instead of wood pulp or bamboo.

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.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

«You can use the waste product from the distilling process or any number of other sources of biomass, such as switchgrass or wood pulp.

The cellulosic ethanol used by Corvette Racing is made from waste wood — dead trees, undergrowth, broken branches, and bark — collected in South Dakota's Black Hills National Forest to reduce the risk of wildfire.

Corvette Racing will use this renewable high - octane fuel, which is made primarily from wood waste, in the upcoming ALMS Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg on April 5.

The low - dust, natural wood fibers of ökocat allow the litter to absorb 500 times its weight, enabling cat parents to use less, thereby making this an environmentally friendly, yet also economical, waste management decision.

We chosed this kind of construction because wood suits the local weather conditions and keeps the air cool even on the warmest days, avoiding the big waste of energy from air conditioned rooms and using local materials at the same time.

You're still doing crazy stuff like hunting down a record of theramin music and using radioactive waste to track people through the woods, but if you take the game a bit at a time, things will click.

She raised some of her food, carried the water she used for bathing and cooking from a nearby well, collected rainwater from her roof for washing, composted her waste and split wood for her wood stove.

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.

Knowing that 50 % to 80 % of wood is wasted in production, the students decided to use waste shavings and bio-resin in their piece.

The region can expand its use of wood and agricultural waste as a power source, but new bioenergy plants are generally more expensive than wind power.

The combined heat and power plant, using 250,000 tons or more of waste wood per year, now supplies district heating to some 80 percent of the downtown area, or more than 1 square mile of residential and commercial floor space.

The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.

While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 2008, the United States is the world's largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 26 % of the world's total.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

These include making renewable energy carriers available on - site by using more electricity and district heating instead of fossil fuels for processes, using more environmentally - friendly materials for lower emissions in production (e.g. recycled steel, and solid wood), better thinking around transport of surplus masses (soil / rock / gravel), and improved waste management and recycling.

Glulam technology also uses scraps that are not big enough to use for other purposes, significantly reducing waste, and in this case, using up a serious amount of pine beetle damaged wood.

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.

Much of the proposed biomass use comes from plant residues from agriculture and food processing, sawdust and residues from forestry and wood processing, manure, and municipal waste.

Otherwise I wonder how much more efficient it really is than using conventional wood framing; there is a lot of complicated cutting out of the sheet of plywood and a fair amount of waste material here.

However, about 2/3 of those pallets only get used a single time, and it's estimated that U.S. companies alone throw away some 4 billion board feet of wood pallets every year, so putting them back into use as a building material is a great way to repurpose this «waste».

Just last month, research by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed that pneumonia has killed more Kenyans that malaria in the past year, and that people who use kerosene, animal waste, charcoal and wood fuel for lighting and cooking — especially in rural Kenya — are more likely to die from pneumonia [1].

LSS practitioners use various acronyms to remember the categories of waste in a process, such as «TIM WOODS» or «DOWNTIME».

The wood fibres are taken from timber off cuts and because the whole of the log can be used to produce the fibres, there is no waste making this an environmentally friendly alternative to real wood.

Then you don't have to use nearly the same amount of wood as closed cabinets, and you don't have to waste money on cabinet doors either.

Using a wasted alcove to store wood supplies for the home also creates an interesting display that adds a sense of warmth to the hallway.