Bamboo wood pellets ?

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Just wanted to revive a thread from last year regarding Bamboo wood pellets. Did anyone had some luck in testing these ? Is there still a US source around ? The given internet adress from last year seems dead and I can only find suppliers from china, vietnam or cambodia - which is not my understanding of environmentally friendly fuel from local source....

Would be cool to have fast growing bamboo producing my heat source.

Any pointers ?

Thx
 
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I asked for a sample but They never sent it. I was thinking Bamboo would be a good rival for wood pellets. But grows much faster than trees!

Shure would like to know the ash content and rated BTU's?
 
Buy a can of bamboo shoots and grow your own...
 
Bamboo pellets. I can see that could be an important source for fuel pellets. Most any time you can use grass instead of trees, you are ahead.
But here in Maine, I have read that we have more forest now than we did back in the 1800's when they cut so much of it down for the pastures. Our forest are renewable and seem to be well managed. So wood pellets continue to be an appropriate use of our natural resources.
 
Chinese are now selling pellet in the US & Canada. Bamboo at that. ???
Somebody is buying them?????
COME ON MAN!!!
 
save$ said:
Bamboo pellets. I can see that could be an important source for fuel pellets. Most any time you can use grass instead of trees, you are ahead.
But here in Maine, I have read that we have more forest now than we did back in the 1800's when they cut so much of it down for the pastures. Our forest are renewable and seem to be well managed. So wood pellets continue to be an appropriate use of our natural resources.

The reason we have more forest to day.In the 1800 or so when a fire started it burned until mother nature put it out. Today we have fire fighters Another fun fact,everybody in the world could live in the state of texas and then density would be the same as NY city
 
I would sooner stick a ball point pen in my eye than buy pellets from China...........

Dale
 
krooser said:
Buy a can of bamboo shoots and grow your own...

I am tempted....maybe not from a can of shoots but otherwise would like to try bamboo in the garden for a different reason. Anyway, just wondering if people knew anyone in the US doing bamboo pellets (either burning or producing). It seems to me like an interesting choice, there are bamboos that grow down to -20F, so would grow in my area - smaller versions though. In the southern states one could grow the timber bamboo that grows like some insane 60 feet in one season (at some 4-6 inch diameter).

At least from the outside that sounds like a renewable resource on a pretty fast turnaround (say a groove will need 6 six to achieve this vs. Wood trees needing some 15-20 years till harvest).

But it looks like everytime this topic is raised it gets only blanks....maybe not quite ready yet and I found a business model for my retirement ?

....and no, I am not planning to buy 1000 ton from china to increase our debt even further...although I would try a bag for the science of comparison...
 
Riddle Master Morgon said:
krooser said:
Buy a can of bamboo shoots and grow your own...

I am tempted....maybe not from a can of shoots but otherwise would like to try bamboo in the garden for a different reason. Anyway, just wondering if people knew anyone in the US doing bamboo pellets (either burning or producing). It seems to me like an interesting choice, there are bamboos that grow down to -20F, so would grow in my area - smaller versions though. In the southern states one could grow the timber bamboo that grows like some insane 60 feet in one season (at some 4-6 inch diameter).

At least from the outside that sounds like a renewable resource on a pretty fast turnaround (say a groove will need 6 six to achieve this vs. Wood trees needing some 15-20 years till harvest).

But it looks like everytime this topic is raised it gets only blanks....maybe not quite ready yet and I found a business model for my retirement ?

....and no, I am not planning to buy 1000 ton from china to increase our debt even further...although I would try a bag for the science of comparison...

Bamboo grows just fine in our region. No need to import anything to the USA. China may export, But its more likely to be Europe that gets it. Just like the massive tons of wood pellets we and Canada export to Europe. We have many mills that only produce just for exporting.

We have seen a stahl in the multifuels mostly because of the oil price drop in early 2010. Left alot of pellets at the mills. So there was a slight flood of the market with pellets. Not to mention the box store war of the past 2 seasons. Another thing is these new log to chip mills. Chipping logs for pellets has lessened the fiber war a bit. But you can bet the alternitives like bamboo will make ground if we see pellet shortages. I thought the added pressure from the high cost of corn would have made other fuels more excessable, But that went bust!

I put some feelers out, And will reply if I get any links to share!
 
Interesting topic / idea.

I remember reading an article recently about some US based bamboo test grove/foresting taking place somewhere. I want to say it was part of a university project down south somewhere, Mississippi maybe??

Google couldn't find me the article in a few minute of looking. I'll add it if I find it.
 
Actually I'd sooner stay warm with some bimbo.....
 
America bimbos: YES
Chinese bamboo:NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Bank said:
America bimbos: YES
Chinese bamboo:NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Makes much better wood
 
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