Biomass Bag finalist in Alaska competition

Biomass Magazine March 2009
By Ryan C. Christiansen
Web exclusive posted Feb. 27, 2009, at 11:44 a.m. CST

Peter Olsen, the owner of Kodiak Wood Fuels in Kodiak, Alaska, has an idea – a Biomass Bag for transporting wood chips and other woody biomass across shallow rivers. The idea is a finalist in the 2009 Alaska Marketplace competition, an event sponsored by the Alaska Federation of Natives.

The Biomass Bag is a reusable bag for transporting woody biomass. The bag uses the natural lower density of wood and also captured air to float the biomass across shallow waters, such as rivers in late summer. “If you've been rafting down a river or have been out on the ocean, you can stick your sleeping bag in a little yellow bag, roll the end up on it and snap it shut and, most of the time, it stays dry,” Olsen said. “If you increase that concept roughly by about 100, you're getting close to getting your brain around what I've got here.”

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