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Easy-to-use unit converts scrap wood to electricity
Until last October, there wasn't much Sterling Tipton could do with the piles of scrap wood that didn't make it into the finished chairs, tables and cabinets that left his factory floor.
Now, Tipton, manager of Zuni Furniture Enterprise, uses the scraps to help power half his operation.
He's doing it with the BioMax 15, an experimental "bio-powered" contraption that can transform a variety of dry organic matter, from wood chips to coconut shells, into useful heat and electricity.
Tipton's company, which operates out of a white corrugated metal building that looks out onto the sandstone mesas surrounding its rural pueblo, is one of eight sites around the United States helping the system's creators work out the bugs before it hits the market
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