Fired up by wood.

• Position: STATELINE - School districts to heat schools using waste wood and other biomass to avoid rising natural gas price - Brief Article

Voters in Kellogg, Idaho, have approved a bond to heat schools using waste wood and other biomass to avoid rising natural gas prices. They are the second school district in the state to do so. The biomass system will burn about 600 tons of wood chips, spindly trees and fibrous organic debris a year to boil water for steam heating in school buildings. Currently, the district spends about $8 for 1 million British thermal units worth of energy from...