Wood Chips Keep Quabbin Warmer
As a keen alternative towards providing a sustainable environment in the world of soliciting better consumption of power for heating, many would probably pick up some good ideas from the Quabbin Reservoir. Simply enough, they made the shift to using wood chips to serve as its primary source of heating.
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation, which operates the building, recently fired up a new 60-horsepower boiler with state-of-the-art pollution controls. It is designed to burn about 400 tons of wood chips a year, displacing perhaps 22,000 gallons – or 85 percent – of the fuel oil used by the facility for heating.
Although oil has been diminishing for the past months, no one can say on how long this trend would last. So to avoid cramming for it, the best thing to do for now is to simply continue research on using alternative solutions when it comes to lining up alternative sources of energy for consumer use and aid.
(Source) Massachusetts Local News
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