Re: Butanol

How Kimosabee,

MY thought process driving this model of a residential pelletizing unit involved the owner of said unit picking up bio-mass from neighbors, job sites, road sides and friends. A custodian if you will, cleaning up and getting paid for it in the final analysis by taking care of their heat bill. The custodian aspect of the pelletizer is the beauty of the machine, the way I see it.

I have ten acres of mixed hardwoods and with the little computation I did several years ago I came up w/ roughly 1250 pounds per acre. The average weight of a hardwood cord being appro. 5,500 pounds, this roughly translates into 3 cord of btus. Which is right around what I'd need to heat the water and my future home in the winter.Taking into consideration that I didn't want the wood lot to be "manicured". Dead fall was part of the overall biomass factor, albeit standing dead trees were left for nesting habitat.

Different subject, any ideas how to produce ceramic spheres that contain a vacuum? For insulating purposes, just batting around some more ideas in the noggin.