Don't panic: Popular (wood fuel) pellets plentiful (Maine)

[jpak]

http://www.bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=167534&zoneid=500

EAST CORINTH, Maine - There are 300 tons of waste wood in enormous piles outside the entrance to the Corinth Wood Pellets LLC, leftovers from construction sites and sawmills.

In a new storage facility nearby, 1,000 tons of sawdust air-dries before going through a series of electric dryers.

Drums turn, augers drill, and while the smell of Christmas hangs heavy in the air, wood pellets are formed — tiny bits of compressed sawdust that will burn 20 times cleaner than firewood and cost less than oil.

George Soffren, general manager, said that stove manufacturers may have greatly underestimated their sales of pellet stoves this year, but pellet manufacturers are handling the demand for the fuel quite easily.

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[madokie]

1. Thats good news to me

We'll be buying a couple tons up front this year, before old man winter even visits us.

I have saved a shitload of cash these last 16 winters by burning wood pellits is all I know fore shore

I wonder what the price will be this winter. Last winter we paid 185 bucks a ton plus tax

[mainegreen]

2. Quote: "In 10 years, I think 40 [percent] to 50 percent of Maine homes will be heated with pellets"

I believe it.

[jpak]

3. I was about to post that quote

watch the weather MG

[phantom power]

4. If I was a forest, I might stick with panic.