Comments on: NREL Ignites $3.3 Million Woodchip Boiler http://ecopolitology.org/2008/11/22/nrel-ignites-33-million-woodchip-boiler/ The Politics of Energy and the Environment Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: NREL Uses Old Gas Pipelines as Structure in New Building | Earth & Industry http://ecopolitology.org/2008/11/22/nrel-ignites-33-million-woodchip-boiler/comment-page-1/#comment-2768 NREL Uses Old Gas Pipelines as Structure in New Building | Earth & Industry Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:05:44 +0000 http://ecopolitology.org/?p=310#comment-2768 [...] The building will also use another resource which is abundant right now in Colorado, wood paneling made from mountain pine beetle kill. Beetle-killed wood that also provides 75% of NRELs heat via their new $3.3 million wood-fired boiler. [...] [...] The building will also use another resource which is abundant right now in Colorado, wood paneling made from mountain pine beetle kill. Beetle-killed wood that also provides 75% of NRELs heat via their new $3.3 million wood-fired boiler. [...]

]]> By: Tim http://ecopolitology.org/2008/11/22/nrel-ignites-33-million-woodchip-boiler/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Tim Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:55:55 +0000 http://ecopolitology.org/?p=310#comment-213 Yeah, fortunately I am surrounded mostly by pinion and juniper, very little lodgepole pines. Although, all it takes is five minutes in a car and I am in the middle of a lodgepole forest that is on its way to decimation. If there is any benefit to this whole thing, the price of firewood has dropped sharply in Colorado. And I'm reaping that benefit as we speak. Yeah, fortunately I am surrounded mostly by pinion and juniper, very little lodgepole pines. Although, all it takes is five minutes in a car and I am in the middle of a lodgepole forest that is on its way to decimation.

If there is any benefit to this whole thing, the price of firewood has dropped sharply in Colorado. And I’m reaping that benefit as we speak.

]]> By: David http://ecopolitology.org/2008/11/22/nrel-ignites-33-million-woodchip-boiler/comment-page-1/#comment-214 David Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:38:16 +0000 http://ecopolitology.org/?p=310#comment-214 I know we have been hit hard here by the beetles - the mountains are starting to look like elephant skin with just a few hairs on them. So sad, really. Good to hear the wood could be going to something so useful though. I know we have been hit hard here by the beetles – the mountains are starting to look like elephant skin with just a few hairs on them. So sad, really. Good to hear the wood could be going to something so useful though.

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