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EN: Sustainable Energy at Villa Vontenie: Once a year we need new wood chips to generate our energy for heating for our hotel. By using locally sourced wood chips for energy generation we want to contribute our share to the prevention of global warming. This time the latest 1 year old and 850 HP wood chipper Albach Diamant from Reckinger in Luxemburg came to do the job. It is a spectacular event and many of out hotel guests came to watch this happening. The giant wood chipper filled the storage hall with 180m3 of wood chips in less then 60 minutes.... Logs are dried until 30-35% water content after which further drying takes place in the storage on the left due to heat released by the decomposing of the wood. Our tractor feeds the chips into the storage bunker of the heating system where a hydrolic press feeds the chips into the 100 Kw heating system. The volume of chips generated in the video is sufficient for 1 year. If you consider sustainabilty during vacation as important as we, please che
