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Oregon Governor Kitzhaber told reporters that wood pellets were a solution to reviving Oregon’s moribund rural economy. He talked about his vision of forest communities replacing their dwindling wood product-based industry with an industry making wood pellets and gathering biomass to make electricity. The Governor says wood pellets cost “about the same” as natural gas.
He envisions folks walking around in the forests, collecting downed biomass. It doesn't work that way, Blue Jean: first, you'd have environmeddlists filing suit left and right, because that dead wood returns nutrients to the soil and provides homes for bugs. Second, to make quality wood pellets, you need quality material. That means you cut trees down and turn them into useful products, then recycle the waste in wood pellet manufacturing. But you don't want to see trees cut down; that would be wrong.
So, basically, you have no solution.
