Thank you, and just for your information, there were two reasons that those two communities and the Shell company ceased production.
The first was that all of a sudden natural gas became much cheaper. There was a decline in the cost of natural gas, so the efficiency or the economic reasons diminished. As well, there was a slowing down of the lumber industry; they got most of their biomass from bark and sawdust. But you're right, the technology.... I've done some research into it in the past, and you can chip your wood, etc.
Also, I don't know if you explored this, and I suspect it is a bit far-reaching for you, but in northern Ontario they're considering using biomass to produce ethanol, and of course, ethanol goes a long way to stretch your petroleum dollar. So I wonder if you've looked at various enterprises.
The other one is just to use either sawdust or wood chips to fire into a boiler at high speed and high temperature, and do something like they do in some of the Scandinavian countries. I know in Hearst, Ontario, most of the schools as well as municipal buildings were all built very close together, so you could have one power plant produce heat for a number of buildings. Have you looked into that? In most northern communities the buildings have been built close together.
Have you looked at that as energy efficient, not necessarily using biomass to make pellets but using different forms of biomass to produce heat? I'm told it can be self-sustaining also. You produce steam, which can be used to generate electricity.
