{"623456":{"#nid":"623456","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Timber Industry Pushes More Biomass Power","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, a\u0026nbsp;Regents\u0026#39; and Brook\u0026nbsp;Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ein the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;Timber Industry Pushes More Biomass Power\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Public Broadcasting\u003C\/em\u003E, July 11.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf there\u0026rsquo;s one thing Georgia has a ton of \u0026mdash; actually a billion tons \u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s trees. The state leads the country in acres of private timberland and volume of timber harvested. Some in the timber industry think we should turn more of that wood into electricity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom several stories up at Exelon\u0026rsquo;s Albany Green Energy plant, you can see a massive pile of chipped up wood, known as biomass. A long conveyor carries it up into the plant, where it\u0026rsquo;s fed into a boiler.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe biomass burns to make electricity for Georgia Power. Around the corner from the wood pile, a long tube snakes off, carrying leftover steam to power a Proctor and Gamble plant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/timber-industry-pushes-more-biomass-power\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-16 22:02:23","changed_gmt":"2019-07-16 22:03:02","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Whistle Bistro","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/timber-industry-pushes-more-biomass-power","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617552":{"id":"617552","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1549654607","gmt_created":"2019-02-08 19:36:47","changed":"1549654607","gmt_changed":"2019-02-08 19:36:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235058","name":"Brown Portrait High Res 2018.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1084696,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png?itok=xDn4Rjz4"}}},"media_ids":["617552"],"groups":[],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"330","name":"Marilyn Brown"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"},{"id":"3449","name":"gpb"},{"id":"7765","name":"Georgia Public Broadcasting"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}