Biomass energy and a project for ME

Andrew Hagen (ALH)

We're just waiting for everything to be made ready for the US.

-Andrew

hr

This article from Solar Today

mentions the Tarm folks and an interesting project ijnh Colorado. I suggest Mr. Eatherton take his class on a field trip to check out this biomass district system

Also check out this pellet boiler company. I've heard they build Viessmanns pellet boilers.


www.windhager.com

http://www.solartoday.org/2005/nov_dec05/wood_heating.htm

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Velly Intellesting...

Thanks HR. One of my students tells me that the new hospital in my "other" county on the western slope is heated with beetle killed lodge pole pine trees. I'll have to check it out for a future article.

Thanks for the heads up!

ME

mike parnell

pellets

hs tarm boilers,took a short road trip to lyme nh a week ago
to look at pellet fired boilers by hs tarm of denmark. great looking boiler as soon as i can figure out paying for it there will be one in my basement along with a silo outside the house to store bulk pellets, for even less dollars they also burn corn. well worth the trip,nichols hardware in lyme nh, they know what they are talking about.

thfurnitureguy_4

fill your silo with mulch and a large coil of black plastic pipe add a bag of fertelizer each year, keep it wet, and remove the compost out of the bottom. the heat produced nears 180deg. run some baseboard and a circ. stop burning!

hr

Paper pellets

seem like a good idea and look to be the lowest priced pellets i have seen. plenty of waste paper around to squeeze into pellets.

As for manure piles... I played around with some copper coils in a barrel sized garden composter once. It didn't take long to suck all the heat out and stop the composting process. I suppose with a large enough pile you could get some useable heat for a period of time. Still not a "free" energy source

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Dave Yates (PAH)

wood

when burned properly, is a greenhouse-neutral energy source.

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thfurnitureguy_4

Im sure you are right, you need a big pile. I understand the heat is created by the microbes that feed on nitrogen. you need to add some to keep the thing going also needs moisture. Find the optimum temp for keeping the bugs happy and regulate the return temp just like a boiler. What a way to heat a hunting cabin with a radiant slab or such. combined with solar just might cost a million for a dollar return.

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hot rod, for another alternative fuel

check out HOVAL with a Google search. They make an excellent gassification solid wood boiler. I have had my hands on this boiler already in Vernon, BC. Less complex than the pellets version.