We all be progressives here. We look out for the middle class and above.
Oh besides some few liberals who think the poor need homes and jobs and lower taxes, there are some others who care in a different sort of way:
White knuckle time as analysts await job data
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Analysts are bracing for a jobs report on Friday that -- in contrast to the more positive past employment data of this year -- is expected to range somewhere between bad and plain awful.
"Double-dip fears are the tune of the moment," said the economic team at RDQ Economics in a note to clients.
Heartwarming is it not to learn that all those scrooges out there care more about jobs today than Democrats (except for some no account liberals).
Man oh man, do I have a jobs program for you.
Wood Pellets: An Expanding Market Opportunity
The conditions are ripe for a massive increase in the production of wood pellets in the U.S. due to demand from European countries, favorable manufacturing conditions and the availability of raw materials, especially in the South.
Don't Europeans have no Sierra Club pushing counterfeit studies like the notorious Manomet study in Massachusetts:
According to a latest study conducted busts a myth that coal burning for electricity is better for Earth than wood. The results reveal that wood burning power plants produce much more amount of green gasses [sic] that are pumped into the atmosphere than the amount produced by coal burning plant.
Kindly note that Manomet now says they were just fooling you and maybe a push from some Sierra Clubbers, whose vision was actually improved by mountain top removal in West Virginia and do not see eye to eye with other Sierra Clubbers. At the moment I can't find a hilarious follow-up press release by Manomet that claimed they were actually plumping for biomass power.
Quoting again from the original link:
Wood pellets represent an alternative to the use of coal, gas and even traditional wood logs and chips.
...Based on the principle of densification of dried wood chips and sawdust, pellets offer better and more uniform heating properties per unit volume due to their low moisture content. Pellets burn cleaner, have reduced particulate emissions compared with coal, are more economical to transport due to increased bulk density and can be easily produced from wood waste and byproducts. This provides new ways to divert wood waste from reaching landfills as well as to increase overall profit through an integral and more efficient use of the raw material. Wood pellet applications vary from household heating to large-scale industrial power generation. It is important to emphasize that wood pellets are not a new product, they have been utilized for decades, but it is only now that the world is experiencing a large demand increase, and wood pellet potential is still underestimated.
It is not all peaches and cream [sigh]:
The U.S South has the ability to supply pellets for the European market at a competitive price because of enhanced production capacity due to a sustainable wood source from plantations.
While waste wood is aiding landfill operators generate methane, tree plantations are...
Well you fill in the blanks.
Wood is far from the only biomass that is pelletized and burned efficiently but they also get heat from a certain class of environmentalists that would prefer to burn down forests out west than produce energy.
Most everyone approves this glamor puss:
But pond scum and most everything else can be burned by this guy:
EATR would not only eat the petroleum and methane that BP is kindly letting us dip out of the ocean and algae in the raw like the Aztecs did but solar energy as well.
Naturally certain environmentalists are plumb against EATR eating but that is a whole 'nother story.
Best, Terry