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Mar142008

Santa Fe's Energy Solution: A Biomass Future

Here's the first five minutes of a documentary video on Local Energy's 3-year study showiong how to heat all of downtown Santa Fe with biomass from local sources such as forest thinnings and commercial waste. The $1.8 million study included a fully optimized  engineering design, investment-grade cost analysis, emissions estimate, and an economic analysis showing nearly $9 billion in benefits to the local community over the project's 50-year lifetime. The full report from Local Energy is available from their home page, and you can read about all of Local Energy's programs by clicking here.

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    Response: www.ecostrat.com
    People have saddled biomass-inferred vitality since the time when individuals started blazing wood to make fire. Indeed, even today, biomass is the main wellspring of fuel for residential use in numerous creating nations. Biomass is all naturally delivered matter situated in carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

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