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No chip left behind.

Publication: OEM Off-Highway
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: No chip left behind.(Feature)

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No chip left behind

by Chad Elmore

Clever engineering will make solid biomass harvesting profitable.

In early February, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced that a biomass boiler would be installed in a heating plant located on the Wisconsin capital city's isthmus. Throughout the state, biomass is attracting a considerable amount of interest as a fuel for power generation in factories and power plants.

Madison's new boiler will replace a coal unit and be capable of burning up to 100% biomass, eventually using as much as 250,000 tons per year. In announcing the change, Governor Doyle said it will help create and sustain a biomass market in Wisconsin and provide economic benefit for landowners, farmers and processors in the state.

The potential for biomass as a renewable fuel isn't limited to Wisconsin. Brett Hulsey, president of Better Environmental Solutions, a Wisconsin-based environment and energy consulting firm, wrote that the estimated 231 million tons of potential biomass available in 12 Midwestern states could make the region America's "biomass Saudi Arabia."...

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