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Where can you grow 60,000 tons of coal equivalent per square mile per year? In the US, the absolute upper end for forestry biomass is more like 6000 and that's
by philipkglass 5y ago
Where can you grow 60,000 tons of coal equivalent per square mile per year? In the US, the absolute upper end for forestry biomass is more like 6000 and that's in a tiny fraction of land areas. A "good" but unexceptional location would yield closer to 400.
Biomass is nice because you can turn it into chemicals and stored fuel, but the areal power output is very low.
- Retric 5y ago60,000 is kind of the extreme outlier. Melia dubia for example is 44m3 of wood per acre above ground biomass in the right conditions. That’s 28,000m3 per year per square mile, but a few methods which aren’t currently cost effective like extracting the root ball can apparently boost it further.