New Zealand is an ageing society, thus is doomed to become less innovative year by year.
The facts are simple:
- Biocoal has properties similar to or better than coal in most situations
- There are millions of tonnes of wood available for biocoal production
- There is a need for biocoal
The missing part of the equation is a distributed, energy and financially efficient method of converting wood to Biocoal.
This is the alchemists’ stone of woody biomass.
However such a Biocoal producing machine is not based on the willow the wisp ramblings of deranged minds.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) names torrefied biomass the cheapest, lowest risk biomass for storage, transport and processing, and also the best form of biomass as a global commodity.
The simplest portrayal of the process is an energy/mass flowchart like this;
For success it is imperative that the whole process from logs to briquettes is within one vertically integrated machine that crucially is focused on the conservation and utilization of energy.
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