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NREL Ignites $3.3 Million Woodchip Boiler
With the spark of a road flare, engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory lit its new, smoke-free Renewable Fuels Heating Plant today. The $3.3 million project is the Laboratory’s latest step toward operating as a net-zero energy facility. The RFHP will heat NREL’s South Table Mountain Campus laboratory buildings by [...]
Switching From Coal to Woody Biomass
A school district in the mountains of Northwestern Colorado is replacing its old coal-fired boilers with a system that will burn woody biomass – a suddenly plentiful resource – thanks to the region’s pine beetle epidemic that is threatening to kill off nearly all of the state’s lodgelpole pines in the next 3-5 years. The [...]
Pine Beetles Cross the Divide
[This post was originally published at sustainablog on January 22, 2008. It is the first of two parts addressing the pine beetle epidemic in Colorado and what the mountain communities are doing about it. Part two can be found by clicking on this link] Colorado has 1.7 million acres of lodgepole pine forests. Though, if [...]
Pine Beetle Epidemic Grows 1500% in Larimer Co., CO in 2007
If you have traveled to Colorado any time recently, (and certainly if you live here), you may have noticed something a little peculiar about some of the pine trees. If you haven’t had such a privilege, let me just tell you: there are acres upon acres of red pine trees. Why? The state’s lodgepole pine [...]
The Beetles Return to Colorado
The last time beatles invaded Colorado was 1964 and they only made it to the foothills of the Rockies. As the story goes, they were here for less than a day. And although they appeared at the storied Red Rocks amphitheater in Morrison for only about 35 minutes, they were able to inflict a considerable [...]
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