Eucalyptus Forests as Solar Energy

Sir Edward has calculated that quick-growing Indian eucalyptus trees have a yield of nine and one-quarter tons of wood an acre a year. As the wood contains 0.8 per cent of the solar energy reaching the ground in the tropics in the form of heat, Sir Edward has suggested that in theory eucalyptus forests could provide a perpetual source of fuel. He has said that by rotational tree planting and felling, a forest of twenty kilometers square would enable a wood consuming power station to provide 10,000 kilowatts of power.

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Burning them to release the heat they have stored in chemical energy from the sun.

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British Hope to Use Green Trees of Jungles As Source of Power for New Steam Engine

Periodicals>Newsletter Article: Bullard, Sir Edward (27 June 1953), British Hope to Use Green Trees of Jungles As Source of Power for New Steam Engine, New York Times, , 27 June 1953, 6, Retrieved on 2012-01-28

Folksonomies: energy