How many acres of timberland is that?
WWCS: Is this how many acres needed to get about 140 million tons of wood? Well, the United States has about 500 million acres of timberland. 3 That’s about 3 times the size of the State of Texas!4 But, you see, that’s not all going to be used for biomass. After you subtract out your currently used fuel woods, your timber used by the forestry industry, and some other things, you get almost 200 million acres of timberland that you could use for renewable wood biomass. That’s just a little larger than Texas. How about transporting all that wood biomass ? WWCS: A single train carrying the total annual biomass usage would be over 18,000 miles long or more than 6 times the distance between Seattle, Washington and Jacksonville Florida.5 Do we have enough wood biomass to co-fire all those coal plans? WWCS: Well, it seems to me we have just about enough. You see, the United States has just over 310 GW of coal-fire capacity. Let’s assume 10 percent of that could be fired with wood biomass. That
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