The company uses wood scraps from industry that are broken woodchips which is burned for energy or processed into a gas to generate electricity.  Green Energy Resources says it has developed a heat treating methodology for purning woodchips and has secured a $50 million contract to export biomass to Europe.

Utilizing biomass for energy provides a plethora of environmental benefits. Collecting wood scraps reduces landfill, as well as preventing any chemically treated woods from degrading into soil and water supplies. Secondly, replacing coal-powered energy with essentially recycled biomass decreases the amount of greenhouse gases and air pollutants entering the atmosphere, according to the company.

Green Energy Resources’ process helps nations' satisfy the conditions of the Kyoto Protocol through a reduced carbon footprint when compared to coal burning. In recent decades, burning wood for energy has been an unwelcome source of power because then, it meant cutting down forests for wood. By collecting wood scraps, forests are preserved instead of destroyed. 

While biomass accounts for less than 3 percent of power generation in the U.S., globally biomass makes up more than 10 percent of energy supplies, according to data cited in the book Profit From The Peak.

Burning biomass for energy is a renewable resource in countries such as India and China where coal is the dominant power supply. Collecting wood scraps can create local jobs while not requiring harvesting CO2-absorbing plants or trees.

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