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biomass blog

Posted in biofuel, biomass, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, tagged , on October 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t checked out Michael Willoughby’s biomass blog, Woodfuel Magazine, you should. It’s an RSS feed well worth subscribing to. Keep it up, Michael!

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Building Mag responds

Posted in biofuel, biomass, climate change, energy, renewable energy, sustainability, tagged , on August 26, 2008|

In response to my post about his 20-mile claim, Michael Willoughby at Building has responded extensively in the comments – definitely worth a read. The carbon effectiveness of biomass is quite a hot topic so if you’ve got comments or information, please get stuck in.

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Building Mag says biomass only efficient if used within 20 miles

Posted in agriculture, biofuel, biomass, climate change, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, tagged , , on August 21, 2008| 6 Comments »

There’s a short video on the Building website of Phil Clark and Michael Willoughby discussing biomass. At one point Michael claims “it’s not efficient to transport biomass more than 20 miles.” Holy smokes, where does this fact come from? I took a stab at the numbers and came up with a figure of 3000km (1900 miles) by truck before you lose the carbon benefit. That’s 100 times more than Michael’s figure. Looks like one of us (or possibly both) has got it wrong.

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