Wood Bioenergy » pellets http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog a Hatton-Brown publication Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:27:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Expert Advises Caution for Liquid Fuels Hopefuls http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/expert-advises-caution-for-gasification-liquid-fuels-hopefuls/ http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/expert-advises-caution-for-gasification-liquid-fuels-hopefuls/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:42 +0000 Amanda Jo http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/?p=249 A recent news report in agricultural website Capital Press says that timber companies need to be cautious when considering getting into the biomass business, according to expert Gareth Mayhead, academic coordinator for forest products at University of California-Berkeley. According to Mayhead, gasification and other liquid fuels technologies are not yet proven and are currently unfeasible for use on a large scale.  More certain areas of woody biomass are densified wood products, like pellets, where there is a growing residential market, he said.

]]> http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/expert-advises-caution-for-gasification-liquid-fuels-hopefuls/feed/ 0 Weyerhaeuser, Mitsubishi to Explore Biomass http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/weyerhaeuser-mitsubishi-to-explore-biomass/ http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/2010/weyerhaeuser-mitsubishi-to-explore-biomass/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:07:56 +0000 Amanda Jo http://woodbioenergymagazine.com/blog/?p=220 Weyerhaeuser Co. has signed a deal with Mitsubishi Corp. to explore future biomass-to-energy deals.

The two companies are interested in the feasibility of opening a commercial-scale production facility next year that would make pellets from woody biomass and sell them to utilities and industrial users for energy production.

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