Microwaves Turn Wood Waste to High-Value Carbon
17th May 2015
“I think microwaves have been a largely overlooked idea,” says Tim Langley of CarbonScape. “It’s a technology that we almost all have in our homes, but as a commercial heat source for anything other than perhaps drying food we haven’t really looked at it.”
Blenheim-based company CarbonScape is using microwaves to turn wood waste from forestry into high-value carbon products in what it says is a world first.
May 17th, 2015 at 22:51
Did some work on a wood-chip fired power plant in Maine. Seems silly to microwave wood junk. Burn it for heat recovery.
Plant trees, harvest them, make wood products, burn scrap and waste products, plant more trees, repeat cycle.
Nature recycles. It doesn’t take exotic processes.