Excerpt from Wood Fuel Potential From Harvested Areas in the Eastern United States Two-thirds of the forest residue in the eastern United States is concentrated in the South where it is equally divided between softwoods and hardwoods. The remaining one-third of the residue is in the North and is 80 percent hardwood and 20 percent softwood. Material from harvested growing stock ac counts for nearly 75 percent of the total. Another 16 percent comes from rough, rotten, and salvable dead trees from which products were not taken. All of this residue adds up to 138 million tons of material per year that could be used for fuel if conditions and technology existed to get it out of the forests. Although wood is not the only answer to the world's energy problem, significant plant investments are being made to use it to satisfy industrial, utility, and municipal energy needs. This trend should continue as the price of alternative fuels increases and as the infrastructure to supply and utilize wood fuel develops. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.