The University of British Columbia is using new technology to produce biofuel from wood chips, even wood that has been damaged by pine beetles. The wood is heated but does not burn in the conventional sense as it is kept in an oxygen deprived environment. The by-product is something similar to natural gas which will be used to help heat the university. The UBC Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project has received an additional $11.2 million in funding from both the federal and provincial governments and will be fully functional in early 2012. The University of Northern British Columbia will also be using a similar system which will reduce their fossil fuel consumption by 85 percent. This is an exciting technology which could be successfully used locally. Perhaps it could become the backbone of a new Green Energy economy right here in the East Kootenays. To read more about this technology and the company that produces it go here http://www.nexterra.ca/ and for more with comment:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/02/24/UBC-biomass-plant-to-provide-6-per-cent-of-campus-power/
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