Timber Age Systems produces cross-laminated timber using wood from prescribed burns and beetle-kill material. It can be up to 80% more efficient than steel and concrete.
Timber Age Systems produces cross-laminated timber using wood from prescribed burns and beetle-kill material. It can be up to 80% more efficient than steel and concrete.
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Products like biochar could provide the financial motivation for fire mitigation products, which reduce fuels but also creates massive piles of unwanted timber.
If there’s a piece of wood out there, James Gaspard will probably take it.
The 17 acres his company owns in Berthoud, Colo., is stacked with rejected trees from across the state. The beetle-kill branches and fire-scarred trunks wait to be fed into 100 massive kilns, which look like a fleet of rusty UFOs landing in the farmland below Longs Peak.
His company, Biochar Now, uses the contraptions to convert wood into biochar, a carbon-rich charcoal that can help soil retain water and nutrients.