Wood
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Wood is a traditional solid biofuel. It has been used for heating and cooking for thousands of years. With the advent of cellulosic ethanol technologies, wood also has the potential to be an ethanol feedstock.
Types of Wood Biofuels
- Wood
- Firewood - probably the simplest use of wood as a bioenergy source. Firewood is a cheap and abundant source of energy used all over the world as a primary source of energy for cooking and heating.
- Wood chips -
- Wood energy
- Wood fuels/woodfuel
- Wood gas
- Wood heating
- Wood pellets
- Wood residues/Wood waste - Forest thinnings/Tree thinnings
- Charcoal (agrichar, biochar)
- Trees
- Genetically modified trees
- Trees for biomass energy (including cellulosic ethanol production): hazelnut, poplar, willow
Events
- 13-15 May 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, USA: Small Wood 2008 & Bioenergy and Wood Products (Themes: biomass, wood)
- 18-22 August 2008, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA: Short Rotation Crops International Conference: Biofuels, Bioenergy and Bioproducts from Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Crops. (Themes: biofuels, bioenergy, bioproducts, crops, wood)
News
- Forests to fall for food and fuel, 13 July 2008 by BBC News: "Demand for land to grow food, fuel crops and wood is set to outstrip supply, leading to the probable destruction of forests, a report warns."
- "The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) says only half of the extra land needed by 2030 is available without eating into tropical forested areas."
- "'Arguably, we are on the verge of a last great global land grab,'" said RRI's Andy White, co-author of the major report, Seeing People through the Trees."
- |Rising demand for food, biofuels and wood for paper, building and industry means that 515 million hectares of extra land will be needed for growing crops and trees by 2030, RRI calculates."[1]
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