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Grey energy

This article lacks fundamental information about the grey energy content of the pellets (the energy needed to manufacture the pellets). Unfortunatelly, I don't have the info so please help out. --TomTompa 14:04, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MBTU/ton

While MWh does mean mega(million)-watthours, MBTU is sometimes read as thousand-BTU. To refer to million-BTU, the abbreviation MMBTU is used to avoid confusion. See British_thermal_unit.

Re the suggested nerger: It may be better to combine the wood pellets with data on wood chips as fuel, and keep a separate page for equipment burning wood pellets/chips. In Europe, particularly Sweden, heater manufacturers supply equipment for burning either pellets (made from compressed sawdust) or wood chips. Wood pellets are useful for making use of what might otherwise be waste from wood products manufacture, and are usually dry, so they burn well. As noted above, wood pellets carry a significant energy cost if wood is ground to powder and dried specifically for pellet manufacture E.g. One manufacturer indicates up to 20% of sawdust is burned to dry the remaining sawdust. Wood chips are therefore a very practical option which avoids the unnecessary steps of grinding the wood and then compacting or extruding to form pellets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.243.60.11 (talk) 06:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]