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Biomass Magazine
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the April edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, predicting nonhydropower renewables will provide approximately 10 percent of electricity generation this year, increasing to 11 percent in 2019. Wood biomass is expected to be used to generate 120,000 MWh per day of electricity this year, increasing to 121,000 MWh per day next year. Waste biomass is expected to be used to generate 59,000 MWh per day of electricity in both 2018 and 2019.
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FPS
Join the Forest Products Society at its 72nd International Convention June 11-14 in Madison, Wisconsin.
As the housing industry recovers from previous volatile years, it is crucial to find ways to keep building costs at a minimum. The Convention's plenary session on June 14 will address how sustainable resources can be integrated to ensure fiscally responsible goals within the housing industry. Dwayne Sperber, owner of Wudeward Urban Forest Products, will present on recycling trees and how the United States can make a significant impact on local economies by using renewable resources for built spaces.
Additionally, David Fell from FPInnovations, will focus on how the housing sector is facing technical, social, and business practice pressures that are changing the way we build and live, and how energy efficiency, prefabrication, carbon and urban densification provide both challenges and opportunities.
Learn more.
Register today.
Woodworking Network
Higher wood costs are one factor in making housing more expensive, too expensive for some potential buyers. The National Association of Homebuilders is not happy with President Donald Trump's high tariffs on Canadian lumber which are killing the construction industry, according to NAHB CEO Jerry Howard.
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Tech Explorist
Wood waste from furniture processing plants makes up a tremendous segment of waste produced in Singapore. In 2016 alone, in excess of 530,000 tons of wood squander were created, of which, a critical sum is as observed tidy. Rather than burning or arranging them in landfills, wood waste can be reused to make biochar, a permeable, carbon-rich material that assimilates and holds water well. Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a creative and ecological cordial system to improve building structures. The new strategy, which consolidates biochar reused from saw tidy into bond, enhances the quality and water snugness of mortar and cement, and offers an elective use to the vast volume of wood waste delivered.
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MDPI
Softwood chip-n-saw (CNS) is a relatively new stumpage product in the sawtimber- and pulpwood-dominated stumpage markets in the U.S. South. Based on a quarterly data series from 2003 to 2016, this study estimates the demand and supply models of the softwood CNS stumpage market in Louisiana.
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Juneau Empire
For over a decade, the Forest Service has worked to create consensus on a transition from old growth logging to young growth sales on the Tongass National Forest. In 2016, this effort produced a historic agreement by the Tongass Advisory Council (TAC), whose members came from environmental and industry groups, Alaska native corporations, the state and hunting and fishing interests.
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Woodworking Network
After extensive tests, Oregon State University has deemed western juniper - an invasive tree that has spread across much of Oregon — viable for commercial wood markets. The results were accepted by the nonprofit American Lumber Standards Committee, whose accreditation program encompasses much of the softwood lumber sold in North America.
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The Associated Press via CNBC
An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of rosewood, a material prized for its rich, multicolored grain and resonant sound. Since new trade rules took effect in 2017, guitar makers have complained about long delays in getting permits to import rosewood and export finished instruments that contain it. Warehouses have filled with unsold instruments, and a bagpipe maker in New Hampshire went so far as to ask the governor to intervene after a permit application was lost.
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