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All SOULS INTERFAITH GATHERING, Shelburne, Vermont, United States
A Sanctuary's Modest Pellet Boiler Will Help Test Local Field Grasses
The handsome sanctuary of the All Souls Interfaith Gathering, an ecumenical worship and meditation center in Shelburne, Vermont, is surrounded by gently rolling fields and woods that slope to the shore of nearby Lake Champlain. If a current experiment goes well, those fields may soon supply fuel for the biomass hot-water boiler that heats the sanctuary—and that could help to open up new vistas for locally produced biomass fuel.... Full story
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MUNICIPAL AQUATIC CENTER AND CITY SCHOOLS, Craig, Alaska, United States
Heating with Woodchips in a Wet Climate
What became Alaska’s first fully automated, woodchip-fired district heating system began as a sort of afterthought.... Full story
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LAMBACH ABBEY, Lambach, Austria
A Wood-Heating Tradition of 900 Years Is Modernized at an Austrian Monastery
When natural gas service reached the market town of Lambach in Upper Austria in 1996, local homeowners stopped burning wood. That meant they also stopped buying their firewood from historic Lambach Abbey, a monastery that had been harvesting wood from its own forests for more than 900 years.... Full story
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LONG LAKE CONSERVATION CENTER, Palisade, Minnesota, United States
A Simple System with a Quarter-Century Service Record
The five GARN cordwood burners that power the campus heating system at Long Lake Conservation Center are robust exemplars of a key transition in the story of biomass energy. Three of the units have been working for a quarter century—and they embody the shift from old-fashioned woodstoves to far more powerful, clean-emission central units.... Full story
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WOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER, Finland, Minnesota, United States
A Place Where Wood Heat Is a Lesson in Itself
To a great many of the 17,000 people who visit the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in upper Minnesota each year, a biomass-fired campus heating system is part of the learning process.... Full story
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