biomess boilers

Devan

In reading Dan's recent news posting on biomass, I can't help but to wonder about recent events happening in my area. My hometown is seriously debating a ban on outdoor wood boilers. Most likely they will allow them this winter , but next year who knows. A nearby town already banned them.

Also neighboring Springfield , Mass area has a proposed bio mass plant in the works, but its has received large opposition.



<a href="http://springfieldinstitute.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/lets-stop-the-biomass-plant-in-springfield/">http://springfieldinstitute.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/lets-stop-the-biomass-plant-in-springfield/</a>



I kinda agree, different shades of green : (

Jamie Hall

The problem being

air quality, of course.  A lot of places in Colorado I know of do not permit wood stoves, unless they have catalytic converters on them!



Getting a biomass boiler to run efficiently and cleanly in a commercial setting is difficult enough -- getting a wood-fired home boiler to do so is almost impossible.



As you say -- different shades of green -- you can get into an awful fight, if you like, by pitting the bird watching fraternity against the wind turbine fraternity, for instance! -- actually rather fun to watch, in a perverted sort of way...