While the Peninsula gets into a huge debate with lawsuits, over using wood waste for energy, a town in Sweden adopts to it, adds methane generators and other methods to ween itself off petroleum. Isn’t it time we put all the pieces together and think outside the box about what can be accomplished rather than what can’t? This article shows that there is a way forward, and that the wood waste might be part of the solution. The problem is that the process to get a community consensus is not transparent enough. It generates lawsuits, rather than solutions.
KRISTIANSTAD, Sweden — When this city vowed a decade ago to wean itself from fossil fuels, it was a lofty aspiration, like zero deaths from traffic accidents or the elimination of childhood obesity.
As part of its citywide system, Kristianstad burns wood waste like tree prunings and scraps from flooring factories to power an underground district heating grid.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/science/earth/11fossil.html?ref=science