Two Forest Biomass Initiative pilot projects receive stimulus loans and grants

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Borgford Bioenergy will utilize the funds for the gasification of woodwaste to produce biopower and biochar, a soil amendment to enhance wheat production in northeast Washington. These funds will create or retain 27 jobs.

“We are excited that Commissioner Goldmark has stepped up to help us forward the energy project at Kulzer, Washington. This will help create more jobs than we have already created with previous partnership efforts,” said Dale Borgford, Borgford Bioenergy. “We are looking forward to putting more people to work.”

Nippon Paper Industries was awarded $2 million ($1.4 million loan / $600,000 grant) to replace an existing process steam boiler with a new forest biomass boiler and add a 20 MW condensing turbine-generator. The conversion will allow an increased use of forest byproducts as fuel, qualifying the project as a biomass combined heat and power generator under most western renewable portfolio standards. In addition to creating electricity in this constrained portion of the grid on the Peninsula, the project will help to retain 234 jobs at Nippon Paper’s mill in Port Angeles and create 10 additional jobs during the conversion phase.

http://www.dnr.wa.gov/BusinessPermits/News/Pages/2010_03_30_biomass_grants_nr.aspx

[NNadir]

1. A great day for clear cutting, no? Actually, if one is not a goof, one can read about the PM10

associated with aerosol air pollutants from burning wood in papers like, um, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VH3-4PPMXW7-3&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2008&_alid=1275478903&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=6055&_sort=r&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=901&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=508d4df85c6f3599c8b0686bbb131c60">Chemical characterisation of fine particle emissions from wood stove combustion of common woods growing in mid-European Alpine regions.

In fact, if one is not a lightweight goof who waxes insipid while calling for the dumping of carcinogenic anhydrosugars into the atmosphere of every living thing, if one is oblivious to anything remotely involved with science, one can avoid the clear literature comparing wood smoke with tobacco smoke.

If, on the other hand, one is serious one understands that the continuous average power consumption of the State of Washington is 29,494 MW. of which, to three significant figures 20 is zero percent.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept04wa.xls

One also recognizes that Washington State produced 110,828,451 Megawatt-hours of electric power in 2008 of which only a tiny fraction involved chopping and chipping pristine forests and converting the contents into particulate carcinogens.

Have a nice oblivious denialist goof day.


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept05wa.xls