Re: Wind energy a boon for farmers - tenfold returns !

From: Pete Lynn (pete_at_peterlynnkites.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:12:39 +1300

"Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com> wrote in message
news:Gaxqd.103775$SW3.56361@fed1read01...

>
> Si. A mature hardwood forest is characterized by large
> trees that take centuries to grow, sequestering carbon all
> the time. When they fall, they take centuries more to rot
> out. Some forest are so tangled with undergrowth,
> rotting material and windfalls, that passage is almost
> impossible.

Something I have often wondered about is a mobile TDP vehicle which
drives around like a very grunty lawn mower come scrub and tree mulcher.
I think this is practically possible and should enable you to harvest
scrub land and forest detritus, (and more general agricultural and
forestry residues), turning it into transportable oil on the go.

Such vehicles could be powered by the non oil fuel products of the TDP
process, making them self powered. The non carbon fertilizer and water
products could be respread out over the forest as the vehicle went
along. The oil would have to be centrally collected once the onboard
storage tank was fill. Perhaps the vehicle could leave a trail of oil
filled bags for collection, a separate vehicle could collect it
directly, or it could return to a mother tank, there are many
possibilities.

In the long term such a roving vehicle might continually harvest a
forest for dead biomass, producing oil on a continuous basis that should
help pay to ensure the forest's protection. Hopefully it greatly
improves the economics of forestry, which should result in more forests.
It should also serve as a mobile monitoring platform from which a
relatively accurate ongoing picture of the forest's health could be
discerned.

This could be a major alternative energy source and also serve to manage
the build up of combustibles so as to preemptively control forest fires.
Isolated untouched areas could be maintained or the carbon harvesting
could be selective so as to help preserve desirable habitats. However,
it does not directly encourage carbon sequestration, though it
substantially helps indirectly.

Pete.

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