[Terrapreta] Wood harvesting

[joe ferguson]

This article:
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/637021.html
appeared in the local newspaper.  It reports on work at an experimental 
forest in eastern North Carolina, USA, to clear undergrowth from mature 
forest as a means of wildfire prevention.

In the operation the brush is chipped and the chips hauled away for 
boiler fuel at a 50MWE electric generation plant.  Much of the article 
is involved in reporting on speculation as to the use of the wood ash 
resulting from the operations.

I would think that the activity at this research station would serve as 
a good source of data on operating costs for an operation of small 
industrial scale, since some of its production steps are identical to 
what is involved in a commercial char-production operation.

Joe Ferguson