Biodiversity: a breakdown of species and carbon stocks?
…All animals comprise 0.5% of world biomass. But clearly the largest human impact, in biomass terms, is via deforestation and changing land use, which has released around 1 trn tons…
Wood products: typical pricing?
…pricing is variable, but it can be 2x more expensive than engineered timber products. We also see growing value in mass timber, related chemicals, wood in wind, and interesting companies with specialized wood products, equipment or engineered wood…
One hundred years of carbon offsetting?
…c40-years, the rate of trees’ growth has approximately halved (data below) while the rate of biomass decomposition will cancel out new carbon uptake. We note our numbers here are on…
Wood use: what CO2 credentials?
…five key conclusions. They count against deforestation, in favor of using waste wood, in favor of wood materials (with some debate around paper) and strongly in favor of natural gas….
Tricoya: engineered wood breakthrough?
…wood uses, on a full life cycle CO2 basis, per our recent research here. Accsys Technologies is the parent company commercializing acetylated wood products such as Accoya and Tricoya. It…
Biomass and BECCS: what future in the transition?
20% of Europe’s renewable electricity currently comes from biomass, mainly wood pellets, burned in facilities such as Drax’s 2.6GW Yorkshire plant. But what are the economics and prospects for biomass…
Energy units: life, the universe and everything?
…units is given on page 13, converting wood fuels into kWh from wet tons, dry tons, and across different products, such as fresh wood, dry wood, deforestation wood, wood chips,…
Britain’s industrial revolution: what happened to energy demand?
…of wood. Wood use and total energy use both declined in the 16th Century, and coal first began ramping up as an alternative heating fuel (charts above). In 1560, Britain’s…
Biomass to biochar: the economics?
This data-file captures the economics of producing biochar from waste biomass that would otherwise be likely to decompose. Other products are bio-oil and bio-gas, with the mix depending on reactor…
Wooden wind turbines?
…a laminated wood tower and method for assembly (2020) and a wood connection used in a laminated wood tower (2020). An objective in the patents is to improve the strength…