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| | Wood pellets and briquettes |
 | | Wood pellets are also a pleasant, clean, consistent fuel, and modern pellet boilers are highly sophisticated, featuring all the facilities available on modern gas boilers. |
 | | Wood pellets provide a fuel that, in addition to its environmental benefits, is cleaner, more pleasant to handle, is less aggressive to fuel handling components such as augers, and produces considerably less ash. |
 | | Wood pellets have a higher embedded energy than woodchips, owing to the energy needed to grind the wood to fine sawdust (typically in a hammer mill) and press it through a die at high pressure. |
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