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jpak

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Tue Jan-09-07 04:03 PM
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2. I posted this a while back

Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 04:29 PM by jpak

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=47684#47838

The Press Herald OP has expired, but this should be a start.

...and I'm REALLY exited about this...

The biorefineries don't require additional wood input to existing paper mills - and they could replace a substantial part of the state's oil consumption (and more if folks got out of their pickups and SUVs and into Priuses).

There's a lot happening with renewables in Maine...

new wood pellet mills (Athens, Old Town)

new corn fuel pellet operations (Farmington and Fort Kent)

the Maliseet biodiesel facility in Aroostook County

the proposed biorefineries

1000 MW of new wind power

"hundreds" of MW of new tidal turbine power in the lower Penobscot and Kennebec Rivers.

Maine could be truly energy independent in a few decades...

Dirigo

edit: more info on biorefineries...

http://www.nrel.gov/biomass/biorefinery.html?print

http://www.umainetoday.umaine.edu/Issues/v6i3/forest.html

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