| Articles & Reports |
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| Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Genetically Engineered Trees |
July 2009 article about the overwhelming opposition of the public to the USDA's recommendation for approval for ArborGen to plant over a quarter of a million genetically-engineered eucalyptus trees in
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. |
| Manufacturing Fuel Pellets from Biomass |
2009 Factsheet produced by Penn State University's Biomass Energy Center. |
| Emerging Biomass Industry: Impact on Wood Fiber Markets |
The first edition published in 2008, a study by RISI analyzes the in demand for wood fiber from the biomass industry, looks at how this growth will impact wood fiber prices and examines how each sector of the forest products industry will be affected.
The report helps executives develop answers to questions, such as:
- Lumber mills have been losing money for over a year now - will increased biomass demand for energy raise residual prices and bring lumber mills back into the black?
- Producers are increasingly offsetting rising energy costs by using their residual wood fiber as a fuel source - how will this affect wood fiber supplies and prices?
- With increased wood fiber demand from bioenergy plants, panel producers will become smaller players in the market for residual fiber - will they lose the ability to influence pricing for their raw materials?
- North America is seeing a surge in development of wood pellet capacity in order to meet the rapidly expanding demand in Europe - but what is the outlook for future demand for pellets in the US, Europe and Japan?
- Renewable Portfolio Standards and Congressional targets for liquid biofuels will apparently provide a significant boost to wood demand in the US - but how realistic are current policies and their objectives?
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| DNR forestry chief gives biofuels warning |
December 2008 article from online magazine The Country Today about how the state of Wisconsin is making decisions about forest resources and how they will be involved in the future of biofuels |
| Woods Hole Research Center's NBCD2000 |
National Biomass & Carbon Dataset 2000:
"Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center are producing a high-resolution “National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000” (NBCD2000), the first ever spatially explicit inventory of its kind. The dataset is being produced as part of a project funded under NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program with additional support from the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (LANDFIRE). The primary objective of the project is to generate a high-resolution (30 m), year-2000 baseline estimate of basal area-weighted canopy height, aboveground live dry biomass, and standing carbon stock for the conterminous United States. |
| Paper mills use biomass for crude production |
November 26, 2007 article from
from ICIS News. Includes discussion of Flambeau Rivers Biofuels in Park Falls, WI. Excerpt: "If you're a pulp and paper producer, you have an infrastructure in place for processing biomass, a readily available wood resource ... You might think about expanding your product base to include liquid fuels or bioenergy to complement or even displace your existing product offering." |
| Forest Products Lab works to add value to farming |
Capitol Times article, October 2007. Excpert: "Steve Dvorak, owner of GHD, Inc. said his company has been involved in research with the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison aimed at finding possible uses for digested manure solids in fiber board. And after a year of research, the FPL has come up with the manure/paper composite and is doing an economic analysis of the product." |
| Whole Tree Energy (WTETM) Biomass Power Plant for Central Wisconsin |
A Novermber 2000 grant report from a project funded by Wisconsin Energy Bureau
Division of Energy and Intergovernmental Relations. It presents a comprehensive description of a WTETM biomass fired power plant,
including the fuel supply, power plant technology, and costs. The WTETM system is a
novel technology that builds on past experience with generating renewable energy from
biomass. |
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