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» 2007 » June

B.C. 2050: What climate change will do to our province

Posted: Monday, June 4th, 2007 • Author: Xander
Categories: Articles: Energy Issues, Articles: Climate Issues • Comments: 1 Comment

Lignol CEO Ross MacLachlan’s company is making ethanol from wood chips.How trees can fuel cars

At a pilot plant located on an isolated corner of the University of B.C. campus, researchers are converting trees killed by the mountain pine beetle into high-grade ethanol, a green alternative to gasoline.

Four hundred kilometres away, north of Kamloops, waste bark fed into a high-tech burner comes out as synthetic natural gas for heating water and drying veneer at a plywood mill.

And in BC Hydro’s Vancouver office, staff are sorting through more than 80 expressions of interest from energy and forest companies. They want to produce power from mountains of wood going to waste alongside British Columbian logging roads.

Source: www.canada.com/vancouversun/…

LS » Even if it environmentally and scientifically makes sense to use BC’s plethora of dieing pine trees (thanks to the pine beetle surviving the warmer winters) as fuel for alternative energy automobiles, it is so wrong that this idea even has merit in the first place. I wonder how much warmer the globe will be because so much of the carbon dioxide breathing forests of BC are dead from previously caused global warming?