Don't call it waste wood; call it woody biomass

[Fledermaus]

"This is as green as you get," Henriod says, holding a handful of damp, sweet-smelling wood chips.

"If we have a fuel source, why not use it?" Especially if it's free, renewable, bypasses the county landfill and cuts down on David E. Norman Elementary School's heating bill, which Henriod says costs the school a whopping $1,000 every three days in heating oil. The wood chips, if all works out according to plan, will keep students warm for free; the nutrient-rich potash Henriod shovels from the furnace periodically keeps county property green and its flowerbeds showpieces.

Still, one neighbor living near the school's mulch yard on Pinwheel Lane is uneasy about the joint venture between the White Pine County School District and the Nevada Forestry Department.

What the NFD is proposing is taking the school's mulch storage yard to the next level: encouraging county residents to bring their tree limbs to the site where they will be turned into fuel for the elementary school and into mulch for use by the county. The new buzzword for tree limbs and waste wood (but not construction waste) is woody biomass. And the area is rife with woody biomass.
http://www.elynews.com/articles/2010/03/10/lifestyle/life01.txt

[NNadir]

1. How about we call a source of dangerous particulate pollution?

Would that work?

I can produce a paper, and I'm working on a post to discuss this in the context of the 65 million people who will die in China in the next 23 years from COPD, comparing the carcinogenicity of wood smoke and the carcinogenicity of um, cigarettes.

It will be a fun post I'm sure, but will not generate as much concern and heat as a harmless tritium atom in Vermont.

[Fledermaus]

2. Same old misleading info you always post.

Do you get paid by the post?

Modern furnaces have nothing in common with people cooking indoors over an open fire pit.