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 A Blog Post By Emma Hahn Wood: the Pluses, the Minuses, and the Neutrals      Hey y’all! I don’t know if you guys remember my last blog post, but we basically talked about the different types of materials. In this post, we are going to be really focusing in on wood as a biomass. The Positives :)      One of my favorite things about using wood as a biomass is that almost all of it gets used! It’s either used as lumber, made into paper, sold to farmers as animal bedding, or used as a way to make energy (Lesson 13). This is great because it means that no part of the tree goes to waste once it is cut down! A pig who has wood shavings as its bedding. Another great thing about wood is that since it has been engineered, it can be used for many more things! Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is an example of wood that has been engineered. CLT is made by bonding wood together in a way that makes the grains alternate (Lesson 15). CLT can be used to make buildings be...
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Unit 2 Blog!

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*Audience: my friends* A blog post by Emma Hahn All Feedstocks, Biorenewables Included, Have to be Sourced from Somewhere           Hey y’all! Let’s begin learning about where all of our feedstocks come from. Now since none of you are agriculture or biology people, I’ll answer your first question without being asked: a feedstock is the very first material that is gathered to make a product, for example, cotton is the feedstock for jeans. Note to Kristen: so sorry, but I will not be talking about the topsoil in California. Now back to the topic at hand, these materials don’t just come out of thin air, they come from somewhere, but how does that affect Earth and us? Two Productions of Biomass: Woody and Herbaceous           I think the best way to begin learning about how feedstocks impact the environment is to first see the different types there are. The two I really know about are woody biomass- think trees and bushes- and herb...
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