It seems that our ancestors may have been on to something when they burned wood as fuel. A new study by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has found that burning biomass is far cheaper, more ...

Advances in pellet combustion and control automation have recently positioned wood-pellet-fired biomass boilers as economical alternatives to traditional boilers. Their targeted use promises distinct ...

BAMBERG, Germany, Sept. 23, 2011 -- Bamberg opened the Army's first biomass heating system in Europe Sept. 14 in an effort to transition to more sustainable, renewable energy resources. Two new ...

SunWood Systems founders Marc DiMario and Dave Frank saw that these institutional installations offered an ideal setting for educating young people about biomass heat and, even more importantly, ...

European technology has come stateside with a new biomass boiler system at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland. The center, whose mission is to provide an environmental education to ...

A US-Chinese research group has developed a hybrid system proposal based on photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) modules, a heat pump, a backup electric boiler, and biomass generating units. They say it could ...

Dear Jim: I need a new heating system and I want to consider alternatives to gas, oil or electricity. I hear “biomass” being mentioned often. What exactly is biomass and is it efficient, convenient ...

J.D.: "Biomass" sounds like a new, high-tech heating method, but it actually is as old as the discovery of fire itself. Firewood, which has been used to heat homes for thousands of years, is still the ...

RIB MOUNTAIN — The chalet at Nine Mile County Forest Recreation Area is now being heated by a cost-effective and clean-burning biomass boiler system, thanks in part to a state grant that helped fund ...

SITKA - A Southeast Alaska island village plans to use a version of an ancient renewable energy system to lower its high energy costs. Kake wants to build a biomass district heating system to warm its ...