Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | sand85 - 10/7/2021 16:44
Can the wood be monetarily effectively harvested? I’m a plains guy, is the wood in plains, valleys, hills, mountains? Like Ax Men with yarders and skidders? Inter webs says soft coal is roughly 3x the energy density of stacked logs and anthracite is 5x.
Coal has more energy but it doesn’t regrow every generation or two.
I don’t know all the numbers concerning power plant efficiency at converting wood energy in to electricity.
A basic straight calculation says there’s nearly $600 per ton worth of kWh in wood. I would think 10% of that amount per ton should be enough to get a lot of wood to show up at a mill. The power plant would have to be terribly inefficient for that not to work, even without putting any value on the fire protection side effect of the wood harvesting.
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