"What are the terms that we should expressing volumes transported in? "
Bone Dry Tonnes is in weight/mass terms. Truckloads ("chipvans") is descriptive in biomass collection systems, a truckload is about 25 tonnes. Railcars are correct for the the upper transportation, from Loyalton, Klamath Falls, and elsewhere to Marysville on the Feather and Knight's Landing on the Sacramento. A railcar carries about 100 tonnes.
Depending on the costs of the change of mode and the alternative costs of rail across congestion in the Sacramento/San Francisco, the energy-industry observer answers:
Boatloads. Like the vessels that carried Powder-River coal from the upper landings of the Missouri River barge route to that old TVA generating station that we visited. And to generating stations across the Southeast.
Forest biomass has always used water transport, from the great rafts of Washington and British Columbia, to the Balclutha, to the barges that supply the converted fossil plants of Europe.
In the Northern Sierra Project, the Feather River railroad, with its BNSF High Line northern branch, may deliver biomass to barge facilities at Marysville (Marysville Biomass Facility, colocated with a biomass energy conversion system, municipal heating and cooling services, biomass-based manufacturing, etc.). Golden Western Yuba Feather is a local shared-services company using ownership structures to support efficient cooperation.
Golden Western Sacramento- Feather Boats, a shared-services company is one business solution among many. Atomized boat operations may be efficient. GW Boats could provide dispatch, settlement, and other network services. The system, while launched for the high value use of the forests biomass businesses, immediately extends to deliver a wide range of other, lower value, biomass products to Golden Western Hydrocarbon's Richmond facility, or to other downstream destinations and hubs.
Boatloads of forests biomass flow through the Golden Gate from the timber harbors of the Humboldt and Coos Bays and, at maturity of an international bulk biomass market in the response to the climate-change crisis, perhaps far beyond. Cross-investment across infrastructure systems supports cooperative relationships among, for example, Golden Western Forests Willamette (and other users of the Port of Coos Bay), Golden Western Forests Northern Sierra Project (and others), and other formal and informal partners in the boatloads of participants in the forests communities response to the climate change crisis.
Animal waste biomass may also be carried in barges. Many things are measured in boatloads.
A 270 foot barge carries about 2000 MT, 20 railcars.
"Boats" are a viable elements of the logistical solution of the forests health programs. They improve the economics of many renewable energy sources. They improve the economics of connecting transportation systems. They improve the economics of the usage end of the forest-health solution, particularly that of fossil-replacing renewable energy systems. Attention to the water-shipping infrastructure is part of the climate-change response.
Hey Secretary Pete! This is one of the best infrastructure projects ever.
Remember Jim Beckwourth and follow his path.
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