Are you giving your energy away to Pacific Ultrapower in Chinese Camp?

If you are raking your leaves and bringing them to your local compost pile there’s a good chance you are.

The Pacific Ultrapower plant in Chinese Camp burns local agricultural, logging, and yard “debris” for energy.

The trees on your property are actually extremely complex solar panels. Unlike your solar panels on your home the energy is stored in the leaves, not a large battery.

When our leaves are burned in Chinese Camp electricity is produced.

Now, I am not saying to build a miniature scale Ultrapower on your back porch! What I am saying is to stop giving away your property’s energy storage packets, your leaves.

What you can do:

Dry leaves are obviously flammable. Rake them into fire zone 2 to a maximum depth of 3 inches.** (Fire zone 2 is defined as 30 feet beyond any structure or wood pile.)

Have more? Make piles of leaves. Cover each pile with a tarp and soak the pile with a hose. Keep doing this and in a few years you will have really nice compost. The energy in the leaves will be used by fungus to create nice rich compost.

What could be better than that!?

**THIS IS ONLY SAFE IF YOU HAVE NO LADDER FUEL. ALL VEGETATION MUST BE AT LEAST 8 FEET ABOVE THE LEAVES IF THE GROUND IS FLAT. IF IT SLOPES THEN IT MUST BE EVEN HIGHER.