Sentences with phrase «wood energy production»

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

«Energy production from used wood in these cantons could have been markedly increased in 2014, the year covered by the survey,» says project team member Matthias Erni.

Use of wood - based material will lower energy consumption at the production stage, as well as reducing the products» carbon footprint.

Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»

Indeed, bioenergy from wood made up 44 % of the EU's renewable energy production in 2015.

Brazil is one of the few countries where the large - scale production of energy from wood has been explored for decades.

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.

Sources of wood for energy production may be derived from a range of existing production systems.

The development of economically competitive technology for the production of liquid cellulosic biofuels will cause a major shift in the importance of wood energy.

Under these circumstances, the availability of wood for bioenergy production is likely to be less controlled by energy markets than by trends in roundwood production, extent of forest resources and demands that compete for wood residues.

When residue recovery and postconsumer waste are factored in, however, wood use for energy exceeds industrial roundwood production in several industrialized countries.

In practice however, the wood that is reported as being available for industrial energy production often can not be harvested economically.

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.

Because of widespread illegal logging, production may be under - declared and therefore the extent of wood residues available for energy use may be underestimated.

Ridley contrasted Haiti's and the Dominican Republic's respective landscapes and suggests that Haiti has «pinched nature's lunch to provide [its] energy,» through its dependence on wood for charcoal production, leading to «ecological devastation» due to reliance on renewable energy.

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.

• Ethanol production using wood biomass required 57 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel produced.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedEnergy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedenergy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedenergy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedenergy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedenergy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.