Over two-thirds of the biomass in wood could be transformed by fermentation or gasification into liquid biofuels or monomers (most commercially used monomers are presently derived from unrenewable ...

New research from Germany shows that identifying the cheapest residential heating source remains challenging, as the final ...

Here’s a project that’s hard to categorize. It generates electricity by burning wood. The diamond-plate wrapped column to the right is a magazine that stores the wood, which is gravity fed as ...

[HowToLou] got back to basics instead, with his simple wood-fired water heater design. The design is straightforward, featuring 100ft of quarter-inch copper tubing wrapped directly around a steel ...

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Cottage Grove is one of the suburbs struggling to deal with wood waste. According to Mayor Myron Bailey, the city collected ...

He and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec, one that they planned to fill with 35 metric tons of wood, cover with clay soil, and let sit for nine years.

Instead, consider adding a wood stove—an appliance that provides a country aesthetic and serves as a primary or secondary source of heat. Modern wood stoves can be safe, affordable, and ...

Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another. This subterranean social ...

Whether we will use vegetable oil, short-rotation wood, or algal biomass, plants will be a necessary component in different large scale industrial processes. One might even say that the past was ...

Biomass energy is locked into organic matter. Extracting it efficiently may go a long way toward reducing our reliance on ...

Wood joints are a traditional method of joining timber. There are a range of different joints that can be used for different situations that provide a variety of levels of strength and structure.