HM3 Energy, Inc.
From forest waste to coal replacement
Once mostly dependent on coal for fuel, increasingly, electric power generating plants are relying on alternative energy resources. Some of these are clean sources, such as solar and wind; however they are not considered “base load” power sources, because they are only available intermittently.
HM3 Energy is developing briquettes made from forest waste as an environmentally friendly base load alternative to replace coal as fuel for today's electric generating plants. Years of burning coal as fuel has given off carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that is linked with global warming. Burning coal also produces other hazardous emissions, such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury, which can pollute the air and water.
HM3 Energy’s briquettes are made from readily available and sustainably harvested forest waste. This forest waste is defined as the limbs, tops, needles,and bark left behind after logging or thinning operations. This forest waste is not suitable for production of the standard wood pellets used in clean burning wood stoves or even biomass furnaces generating power for hospitals and schools. In fact, this forest waste is often gathered in piles and burned to reduce the possibility of catastrophic forest fires.
HM3 Energy's T-Wood briquettes are a clean, carbon neutral alternative that has no sulfur dioxide emissions or mercury discharges and emits substantially less nitrogen oxide when burned. Our T-Wood Process densifies the forest waste, creating compact, water resilient briquettes that are economically transported in open rail cars. These briquettes can be mixed with coal and eventually even totally replace coal without expensive modifications to the coal –burning power plant’s current systems and processes.
NEWS
To read about pressures on major coal-fired power plants in the western U.S. to reduce carbon and toxic emissions CLICK HERE
To read about replacing coal with biomass CLICK HERE
To read about utilizing forest waste
For links to useful websites regarding sustainable power sources