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...tall smokestack and the industrial clanking of conveyors in Moscow, Idaho, may look and sound ominously anti-ecological, but visitors' senses are quickly jolted by a fresh aroma reminiscent of a walk-in cedar closet. It is indeed red cedar: tons of chips discarded by a timber mill and trucked in to fuel the University of Idaho's steam plant in the town of Moscow (population roughly 23,000). Thermal biomass provides over 80% of heat and hot water to the campus of nearly 11,000 students. Wood-fueled steam also powers five of the eight chiller units that cool...
...pretty much a no-brainer," explains Lyngholm during a tour of the facility. He is an academically trained forester who for many years ran Northwest lumber mills but now enjoys being perceived as "one of the good guys" for running such a green operation. Idaho's system was a pioneer, coming on-line in 1986, and has been evolving since 2002 under Lyngholm, whose innovations include erecting a large building for stockpiling wood chips for times of supply shortages. The plant also burns campus landscape trimmings and discarded wooden cargo pallets. (See new ways to boost energy efficiency...
...Idaho's central boiler is heated by burning wood to temperatures approaching 2,000°F, performing on par with what is called Advanced Wood Combustion (AWC) technology developed in Europe. "AWC is so clean and safe that AWC systems are commonly deployed in the midst of picture-perfect European towns and villages," says Daniel Richter, professor of soils and forest ecology at Duke University. They are different from ordinary plants that generate electricity by burning wood. In a piece in the journal Science last March, Richter wrote that 90% of the solar energy stored in wood is transformed into...
Lawn Chair Larry's unlikely flight spawned many imitators. In 2008, Oregon man Kent Couch successfully took his own balloon-powered lawn chair on a 235-mile (378 km) trek across the state, traveling across the Idaho state line. This was Couch's third trip - his second stopped just short of the state line, while the first ended with him parachuting from the chair after popping too many balloons...
...Tell me about the time you spent with white separatists in Idaho. I just stumbled upon it. There's a religious sect called Christian Identity, which is a religious arm of the Aryan Nations. When I was in northern Idaho, I sat in on a three-day retreat and had some fascinating conversations. It was just a bizarre experience...