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| Denali Biomass, with offices in Baxter, MN and Aberdeen,
SD, is a sister company to Denali Energy, Inc. Denali Energy,
Inc. focuses on the development of renewable energy, primarily
wind farms and biomass projects in the Upper Midwest. |
| At Denali Biomass, we provide feasibility studies as well
as project planning and development. |
| Biomass Facts |
| 1. |
Biomass is the second-most utilized renewable
energy resource in the United Stated in terms of electricity
generation, currently providing the amount of electricity used
by 4 million average U.S. homes combined, or the entire state of
Colorado. This amount of electricity generation requires about
60 million tons of biomass per year. |
| 2. |
Biomass is any sort of vegetation including
agricultural and forest residues, and liquid transportation
fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel derived primarily from
agricultural crops, and industrial wastes. Biomass power is the
use of biomass feedstocks (forest residues, mill residues,
agricultural residues, urban wood wastes, and dedicated energy
crops) instead of the usual fossil fuels (natural gas or coal)
to produce electricity. |
| 3. |
Cellulose biomass will begin to replace corn
as the primary base in ethanol industry-wide by 2012. This
timing will be dependent upon the planting of hundreds of
millions of acres of dedicated energy crops. Also by 2012, 500
to 1,000 new biofuel plants will need to be built - cellulose
biomass cannot travel much further than 50 miles without energy
loss. In the future, fast-growing energy crops may become the
biomass fuel of choice. |
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