Here’s another story from Wednesday’s Hibbing Daily Tribune that shows an unexpected problem with wood biomass as a source of electricity. The treetops used for power generation rely upon there being outside demand for the larger tree trunks below them. If there is no market for the lumber, the boilers get shut down as is being discussed in Hibbing and Virginia’s exploratory biomass plants. I’m all for getting out of coal, but we’ve got to figure out a reliable source of baseload power to replace it.
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