woodworm

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Woodworm

The tesla power wall looks good system

Take a look at how many times the batteries can be recharged as its not great.

Ahi battery technology is far superior I am reliably informed, and when connected to a torrefied biomass chp unit, solar thermal and solar pv panel, it will be a 100% self sufficiency energy system for the home.

Hope to be having our first demo in 6-8 weeks.

It HAS to be sold in volume. How many people have access to a weighbridge, not many thats for sure.

2 years ago, Norfolk trading standards rang us up for an informal discussion regarding the way firewood is sold and I told them it can only be sold on volume due to the above reasons.

They asked me how that would stop people from selling wet wood and I told them it wouldn't, but customers receiving wet wood would stop buying it and that would stop them from selling it.

An awful lot of firewood dealers only do small volumes (<30cube) and if they had to jump through BSL hoops just for that, they would give up .

Increased costs and bureaucracy will hinder, not help the industry.

Glad we are getting out when we are.

Battery storage technology - not the Elon Musk one which is not a good enough system.

Torrefaction

This process uses no fossil fuels or outside renewable fuels apart from when it is first started up from cold.

On start-up, the drum of the torrefaction plant is heated using LPG, for approx 1 hour max. After that the process is totally energy-self sufficient as far as heat is concerned.

The gases which are released from the wood as it drys are sent to a burner which burns them to create the heat to continue the drying process, releasing more gases, 24/7/365. Therefore there is no need for a biomass boiler to create the heat as the plant does that itself.

We can also install a biomass chp unit to supply the electric for the plant (which we are looking into) The heat from that can then be used to heat the offices.

I have never marketed torrefied as carbon neutral and if you want totally carbon neutral, you are out of luck with any renewable source, but torrefied biomass is as good as it gets. No importing pellets from the USA or even from the other side of the UK.

Microgeneration is exactly what the original post is describing. Produce your own electric at home, store what you dont use during production for when you dont need to produce it, and make use of waste heat to increase the energy efficiency of the home. No more reliance on Drax and the like and no need to heat the home with gas or heating oil.

Nothing about it DECC pages, we had a meeting with them this week regarding certain aspects of it so they are long way off putting anything out yet.

Torrefied virgin timber.

Booker?

We all need to prepare ourselves for a new word that has been created by the mandarins in Brussels - PROSUMERS.

The end of the energy consumer is nigh and the future for energy production lies with the individual householder (Prosumer), who will be able to buy a complete Home Micro-Generating Unit, which calls on solar PV and a micro-chp system based around improved biomass fuels (torrefied to 0% moisture content - smokeless, zero-tar and an calorific value in excess of 6.5MJ/kg) capable of generating between 1.5 - 15kWe/hr. This technology is built and has been tested.

Details of that technology has been presented to Govt in Westminster, Brussels and Cardiff. along with an ESCo that determines a very sound model that enables communities to develop projects that feed energy back to the grid, via wind, solar, hydro and biomass gasification, in order to generate the funds (subsidies) needed to invest in HMGU, which are then able to claim RHI payments for the very limited amount of energy that a householder needs to export back to the grid. A Prosumer will be able to generate and store his/her own energy.

Germany already supports energy storage at domestic levels and Brussels likes this. RHI payments for wasteful technologies will be greatly reduced over the next 12-24 months in favour of storage and micro technologies. There is a quantum shift afoot and DECC in the UK are excited by it.

Torrefaction - Its the future, and its almost here!

Woodworm

Get it!

Top driver

Hope Lewis Hamilton can do it

What length and diameter are you looking for?

hardwood briquettes are better. it contains more heat value, less smoke.

Here is a roller type briquetting press manufacturer from China.

Charlie

Torrefied briquettes contain less than 2% moisture and up to 40% more energy than hardwood briquettes, and produce almost zero smoke, being suitable for burning in smoke free zones.

Ash content is <0.34% from the ones we had independently analysed.

Should be available in 2016 at a lower price per kWh than hard or softwood briquettes.

The briquetting press you have a link for is designed to make coal nuggets out of coal dust which has a moisture content of between 15 and 25%. Saw one in action and it wasn't pretty!

Woodworm

That bottom one is brilliant. Got one for last season and its a great mower and the good thing about it is that you can get into the corners which is a struggle with a mid mounted deck.

Thats a good price aswell

I have been contracting for 9 years now and built up over time. Main work has always been tree planting and follow up maintenance but have been involved with firewood and thinning work for 5 years now. Started with small vimek minimaster then farma 6 ton trailer then got a grant towards the vimek 606. Mainly do thinning for our own use as firewood. Like you say there is not much profit in selling timber at roadside! I own all my kit so no worries with repayments and smaller kit doesn't cost so much to run for instance the forwarder will do a full day on 25 litres of diesel. Like i say it is a trial to see how things work out and it may well bite me but nothing ventured nothing gained! It will revolve around getting a fair price for processed logs straight out of the wood to wholesale market or to biomass boiler market. Massive potential in the National Forest over the next few years. Do you run a harvester? I have not seen a machine that could cope with hardwood first thinnings?

Iain

Speak to Martyn Neve, Even Forestry. He has a Moipu head on a harvester and that's exactly what he is doing with it. Awesome bit of kit

07860 859633

Tell him Mike on the 931 told you to call.

That's a bit vague news fella.

What sort of chip? wet/dry, arb/roundwood, garden mulch/biomass boiler fuel?

Do you want to collect it or have it delivered?

This may all help your query receive some answers.

Just sayin'

What Tom D said:dito:

Would anyone be interested in buying Torrefied wood briquettes?

Moisture <2%

6800 kWh/t

Cleaner to handle than coal briquettes

Can be packaged as required or delivered in bulk

Available from beginning of 2016

Drop me a pm if seriously interested.

Try Martyn Neve, Even Forestry.

07860 859633

He had me once, he wont do it again!!

That would be Mike Edwards then.

Glad to see other people know what he's like aswell.

..and I expect he doesn't pay you for the chip either does he?

What is he using, drying floor, bed dryer, drum dryer?[/Q

 

He is using a bed dryer and burning chip to create the heat for it.

I know of a guy just south of Bristol who is drying woodchip for £10/tonne for someone else and is erning good money from the rhi. When I spoke to him in September, he was talking about drying their chip for free as the rhi was paying so well!

Thats a long way to cart it from Devon

The pharmacist in our local Boots chemist saved my daughters life when she was 18 months old just by being observant.

It was summer and my clumsy daughter who was always falling over had bruises all over her legs, so the Mrs took her to Boots for some Arnica cream for her bruises. Luckily my daughter was wearing shorts, and the chemist took one look at her and said get to your doctor immediately, and rang the doctor to say she was en route. Our GP was the most laid back doctor ever, and sat bolt upright in his chair and rang the hospital to say my wife was on her way and my daughter needed immediate attention.

It turned out my daughter had a disorder where her body was rejecting her platelets in her blood and she was heavily bleeding/bruising intenally. A normal platelet count is 150-200, and hers was 6 and she had a transfusion. If she hadn't been seen within 12 hours, it is highly likely she would not be with us now.

If the chemist hadn't been so observant, my wife would have just taken her home and given her some tea and put her to bed

This was about 14 years ago, but after giving blood last year, I was asked by the NHS if I would consider giving platelets instead of whole blood which I now do every 2-4 weeks. Its a bit like dialysis and is a much more enjoyable experience. If you curently give blood and would like to give platelets and are in a position where you can commit to 2 hours every 2-4 weeks, ask your blood donor group or give the NHS blood donor line a call.

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I know a man with the exact machine

You are a very brave man then!

If not the end user should it not be 20%vat?