“Don’t be fooled. As far as I know, “biofuels” mainly means burning garbage, with some wood pellets from cutting down trees thrown into the mix.”
I think it’s primarily wood pellets from forests being cut down in Estonia and other Eastern European countries.
Talk about DECEPTION!
I think it's primarily wood pellets from forests being cut down in Estonia and other Eastern European countries.
Talk about DECEPTION!
That significant fraction with the vague title of Net Imports. Wanna bet there is a large portion of that that is either coal or nuclear? Deception indeed.
There are a couple plants like that here in NH.
They burn the chipped up branches/tops of trees.
When you log the forest the sawmills only take the logs.
The top of the trees gets chipped up and blown into a van.
It gets burned at these plants to make electricity.
Similar to our trash gets burned to make electricity.
Northern Europe produces a lot of timber. Nordic Spruce, Scots Pine, even Douglas Fir and Larch. The first two have been planted all over Scandanavia, the Baltics, Germany, Austria, Check, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, and RUSSIA.
Some of the best Nordic Spruce comes out of western Russia. Up until the war my company bought from Russian sawmills. All the sawmills in Germany, Sweden, Poland were buying Russian timber because it was cheaper and better quality than the timber growing in their own countries.
Today we are still buying lumber from Germany, Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, etc. We are not buying any Russian lumber currently.
We are also buying OSB from Ireland and Poland.
Generally, all of these products are brought into ports along the east coast. From as far north as Boston all the way to Houston.
A trader two seats away from me just bought 20 trucks of 2x4-16’s #2 Nordic Spruce from Germany. They will come into the port of Baltimore in July.