spontanious combustion in wood chips

7.30: news.phy/spontanious combustion/in wood chips:

. huge piles of wood will spontaniously
combust within 6months
if not turned over to remove
anaerobic decomposition
-- just like smaller piles of dung
that do the same much sooner .

[@] www.nrbp.org/papers/055.pdf
CASE STUDY OF SUCCESSFUL WOOD-FIRED
CO-GENERATION POWER PLANT, 1982-1996.
Danny Aerts and Kenneth Ragland.