Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the project partners and all the folks at All Power Labs who contributed to this project. Our project partners included: the Green Waste Recycle Yard in Richmond (for hosting some of the infield pilot testing The Energy and Resources Group; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory; and the Goldman School of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, for their in depth research into the large-scale regional tree die-off events in California as a resource distributed biomass energy solution. Lastly, over the course of this project, in addition to the authors of this report, many individuals from All Power Labs contributed to this project including; Alejandro Abalos, Joel Armin-Hoiland, Bill Bayer, Nick Bindbeutel, Nesdon Booth, Tyler Brown, Ike Cantrell, Jay Hasty, Ryan Hasty, Dylan Huber, Sam Kaufman-Martin, Abinashi Khalsa, Jaanisar Khan, Austin Liu, Adrienne Lemberger, Noah Levine, Juan Martinez, Johnny Mascolo, Nick Monahan, Andrew North, John Mortera, Steve Nelson, Hugh Patterson, Tom Price, Christine Salamante, Sarah Schubert, James Villalovos, Ferdinand Vinoya, Herman Vinoya, and Baylis Weaver.
Project Team
All Power Labs Engineering Development and Testing Team
This grant, the team evolved a bit from the team that originally started this project. Outlined are the initial research team and the final research team.
Initial Core Research Team
- Jim Mason: Project Manager and Principal Investigator
- Gianluigi Mascolo: Administrator
- Hugh Patterson: Mechanical Engineer
- Nick Monahan: Mechanical Engineer
- Bear Kaufmann: Mechanical Engineer
Final Core Research Team
- Jim Mason: Principal Investigator
- Ariel Fisk-Vittori: Grant and Engineering Project Manager
- Eli Whipple: Mechanical Engineer
- Nick Bindbeutel: Mechanical Engineer
- Bear Kaufmann: Mechanical Engineer
- Brendan Quinlan: Mechanical Engineer
- Andrew North: Mechanical Engineer
Key Stakeholders
- Dan Kammen: University of California, Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratories
- Peter Tittman: University of California, Berkeley’s Center of Forestry Woody (Biomass Utilization Group)
