GLOSTER, Miss. — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...

Mohamad Kabbani, a former graduate student of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and lead author of the paper, demonstrated the environmentally friendly, scalable process can be done in minutes ...

Mark Mathis was looking pretty smart in early 2008. He was harvesting Colorado beetle-kill and converting the state’s flood of dead trees into pellets for affordable home heating. Then the price of ...

Wood pellets offer an inexpensive, environmentally responsible way to heat your home, but there’s a problem. Pellets won’t burn in an ordinary woodstove and dedicated pellet stoves are much more ...

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Much ado has been made of late about the advantages and, increasingly, the potential disadvantages of using wood to create energy. Figuring out what's what on that front has taken on new urgency, with ...