Looks, like all these are highly subsidized by PG&E, which means the local energy dollar leaves northern California for NYSE. Not to mention the relative inefficiency of Wood to electric generation. A wood to hot water boiler for heating building space is much more efficient.
Heath >From: murdoch >Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com CC: >biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com, >[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [biofuel] >forest fires and using wood biomass as fuel Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:08:03 >-0800 > >http://www.covantaenergy.com/energy/biomass.php4 > >As I said a few months ago, I ran across this wood-biomass-to-electricity >plant north of Sacramento this summer and was told by one local how clean >it was, and how it allowed homeowners to have an option for clearing their >land of some wood not-suitable-for-firewood-or-building. Later I learned >that this was a few years old, but still, it seems relatively obscure. > >As Southern California and Denver and others now belatedly search for a >better forest and fire policy, what I'd love to see is not so much any one >measure as a "cure-all" but use of measures such as this in limited >moderate ways, to help communities not only do a better job with fire >prevention and mitigation, but also to generate power and make money. > >other links of interest that came up: > >http://www.calbiomass.org/county.htm > >(San Diego, San Bernadino, Orange, Los Angeles Counties not listed! >Riverside has only one entry. These are the five disaster-area counties of >the recent fires. If I'm not mistaken, San Bernadino is the single biggest >county in the US or the lower 48. Much of it is desert, though certainly >not all of it.) _________________________________________________________________ Fretting that your Hotmail account may expire because you forgot to sign in enough? Get Hotmail Extra Storage today! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
