Montana is rich in renewable, sustainable biomass (woody) in state and national forests and private lands, which when gathered has historically been piled and burned in place. Or burned up in wildfires. Bioroot Energy seeks to monetize the state’s abundance of excess biomass from badly needed thinning and fuels reduction projects and create significant energy, economic and environmental value.
In addition, Montana’s population of nearly 1 million people generates a significant amount of solid waste each day. What isn’t recycled gets landfilled. Nearly all of this carbon-based waste can be converted into water soluble, biodegradable mixed alcohol fuel, which can then enter our fuel supply as a competitor to corn ethanol.
Montana is also a coal-rich state. Gas to Liquid fuel synthesis of E4™ ENVIROLENE® also holds great promise to unlock the thus far elusive promise of “clean coal” and greatly reduce coal-fired emissions by converting dirty coal to clean energy in a closed-loop process, which can even capture and recycle CO2 smokestack emissions into more E4.
Montana has significant renewable waste and fossil-based resources, and the opportunity to pioneer clean, profitable and sustainable waste to energy development and reap the rewards.
- Millions of tons of woody waste biomass
- Millions of tons of solid and liquid household wastes
- Millions of tons of coal
- Millions of cubic feet of stranded methane
- Nearly 1 million people to get the job done, right.
Relevant Document: An Assessment of Forest-based Woody Biomass Supply and Use in Montana
