Finnish forests: trees, yields, costs, value?
…national industry that produces 75 mmcm of wood per year, while having also accumulated 1bn tons of biomass over the past century. The industry generates €20bn per annum in value…
Reforestation: costs of CO2 removals?
…16 (chart below-left, more on yield classes here and here). Biomass can be harvested from the forest. However, the CO2 accounting is important (note here). If the wood is sold…
Biofuels: better to bury than burn?
Burying biomass to sequester CO2 could be more economical than biofuel production with a $15-50/ton carbon price. Thus the global bioethanol industry could be disrupted. Burying biomass would also remove…
Next-generation plastics: bioplastic, biodegradable, recycled?
…derived from biomass (but not bio-degradable), 0.3MTpa are bioplastics in the sense that they are biodegradable (but not derived from biomass), and 0.7MTpa are both bio-degradable and bio-plastics. Biodegradable is…
Sitka spruce: our top ten facts?
…forests, Sitka Spruce represents 50-75% of all carbon stored and 90% of all wood harvested, across 300,000 hectares planted. Sitka is also grown to a lesser extent in Denmark, Iceland,…
Landfill gas: the economics?
…“wood” into a fine dust. More recent data are tabulated in the data-file, from studies of wood in landfill sites. 80-95% of the carbon in wood remains after 40-100 years….
Thermal power plant: loss attribution?
…also developed a biomass-fired variant of the model, reflecting the lower thermal energy of wood versus coal, the higher moisture content and a lower combustion temperature. The base case thermal…
Bio-coke: energy economics?
…petcoke in that it is derived from biomass, ideally waste biomass, which would otherwise have decomposed. This lowers emissions. $449.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Specifically, input materials are treated at…
Biochar: burnt offerings?
Biochar is a miraculous material, improving soils, enhancing agricultural yields and avoiding 1.4kg of net CO2 emissions per kg of waste biomass (that would otherwise have decomposed). IRRs surpass 20%…
Post-combustion CCS: what energy penalties?
…CCS energy penalties for biomass power? The same discussion applies to biomass-fired power plants as to typical thermal power plants. We have adjusted for the heat content of fuels, and…