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  • Biomass Resource Job Creation

     

    [Editor's note: This idea was presented to the President Elect's transition team.  Submit your ideas to the team, and then share them here!]

    One way we could create clean energy as well as the next-generation of ‘BIOFUELS JOBS,' would be to create a new paradigm for retrieving and utilizing the vast untapped resources of our unused biomass resource. 

    What would be helpful is a network of biomass co-generators, manned by technicians trained and capable of turning forest, yard, farm and construction debris into energy and raw materials throughout the land.  To collect and process the biomass of wood that is currently being burned uselessly as control burns, or prescribed burns, in our national forests, should be a primary objective for the next generation of GREEN JOBS.

    EXAMPLE 1: In the Coconino, Kaibab and Prescott ...read full post


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