Washington Examiner
A group of Wisconsin legislators including Senate President Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, are proposing to send $60 million in enterprise tax credits and use the state forestry account to back $150 million in bonds toward building a new $1.9 billion pulpwood facility in Hayward.
The plant work take “low-quality wood and turn it into aviation fuel,” in what is called CORSIA fuel, Felzkowski explained.
The plant would be operated by a German company that has been working with Johnson Timber on the project. The company is also looking at factories in Minnesota and Michigan. More
Green cult grifters and wackjobs praise everything other than oil and gas.
Not Germany’s first rodeo. In 1930s Germany, they used wood gasification as a way to power cars. The “Imbert” wood gas generator allowed wood or charcoal to be converted into a flammable gas to power an internal combustion engine.
Why not just use the windmill on the front of the airplane?
If it’s such a great idea, that company should have no problem getting financing from the private sector.
Can’t get the financing, perhaps you’re being told something…
If it’s such a great idea, that company should have no problem getting financing from the private sector.
Can’t get the financing, perhaps you’re being told something…..
A rule of thumb. If the Government needs to subsidize it, it’s probably not viable. Just sayen. When the Government gets involved it is no longer free enterprise.
Not only no, but fuck no!
After Wisconsin cuts down a whole lot of its trees, it ought to reverse engineer the process and make wood from aviation fuel. That’s what Wisconsin politicians call “winning”.
How many tons of “green” wood chips does the U.S. ship to Europe for “green” electric power generation every year?
The biomass industry rarely distinguishes between low-quality and high-quality wood. It’s all just feedstock to them.
Weyerhaeuser used their 99-year forestry leases in Oklahoma and Arkansas to clearcut vast tracts of previously sustainably managed hardwood forests, sending everything to the chipper, rather than waste time and labor picking out valuable old-growth furniture grade hardwoods. They then replanted those now barren areas with fast growing trash trees to feed the pulp mills, harvesting every ten to twenty years. (A cruel activity among local real estate agents was selling cabin property adjacent to these tree farms, a year or two before the next scheduled harvest.)
Biomass for energy is ecologically devastating. It industrializes and globalizes the behavior of third-world charcoal burners. Before/If they turn to tree farming, they will cut and chip everything else first.