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Woody Debris Utilization
Publication by Ecotrust and Resource Innovations
Can the vision of healthy forests and healthy communities bring together traditional adversaries? This publication tells a story of collaboration that moves beyond the tales of the 90's era timber wars by sharing how four groups across the Pacific Northwest are acting on recent federal stewardship contracting authorities to help manage National Forest lands for watershed and community health... [Read more]
This website is a resource for entities interested in woody biomass utlization and to facilitate the work of the Federal interagency woody biomass utilization group (Woody BUG), a working group of technical specialists representint federal agencies whose missions relate to the goal of encouraging the use of woody biomass. [Read more...]
Bioenergy and Greenhouse Gases
White Paper done by Gregory Morris, PhD, the Green Power Institute and the Renewable Energy Program of the Pacific Institute, Berkely, California in 2008.
The greenhouse-gas emissions produced at biomass and biogass genrating facilities come from carbon that is already a part of the linked atmospheric-biospheric carbon cycle. This is in stark contrast to fossil-fuel combustion, which removes carbon from permanent geological storage and adds it as net new carbon to the carbon already in place. [Read more...]
Why are some forest fires so intense?
PDF publication by Oregon Forest Resources Institute
Nearly 40 percent of Oregon's forestland is classified as Class 3 or at high risk of uncharacteristically intense fire because of dense, unnaturally overcrowded and dying trees. Another 45 percent is in Class 2, or at moderate risk...[Read more]
Part III: Eastern Oregon Case Studies
Excerpt from Western Forest Health and Biomass Energy Potential, A Report to the Oregon Department of Energy by R. Neil Sampson, Megan S. Smith and Sara B. Gann
This report was compiled in 2001, long before many recent developments in biomass energy technology; however, Part III describes the forest conditions and fuel availability in Eastern Oregon, a prime target for biomass feedstock.
To read the entire report visit:
http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/RENEW/Biomass/forest.shtml
The right time for forest restoration
Guest column in the Oregonian, March 10, 2010
by John Shelk and Andy Kerr
One of us runs a timber company. One of us is an environmentalist. And we agree...[Read more]
The beginning of the end of Oregon's timber wars
By The Oregonian Editorial Board, December 16, 2009
At last, after all this time, all the lawsuits, bitter enemies in the longest-running environmental dispute in Oregon have found common ground on how to manage the dry forests east of the Cascades...They all agree that larger older trees should be off limits and that there are already more than enough permanent roads crisscrossing public forests... [Read more]
NEWS
NOV 2011: HM3 Energy Northwest Cleantech Open regional finalist, competes in national competition in San Jose. READ MORE
AUGUST 2011: HM3 Energy featured in Biomass Power & Thermal magazine. READ MORE
JUNE 2011: HM3 Energy awarded SBIR-USDA Phase 2 grant, worth $460,000. READ MORE
HM3 Energy receives US Endowment for Forestry and Communities grant, worth $241,000. The award will be used for pilot plant operation and key commercial scale equipment design and fabrication... READ MORE
Successful test burn completed with 100% torrefied biomass in pulverized coal-fired combustion facility proves torrefied biomass can replace coal directly in coal-fired power plants... READ MORE
Torrefied biomass energy can come from a variety of feedstock sources.... READ MORE
Torrefied biomass energy costs compare very favorably with other clean energy forms, such as solar and wind...READ MORE