Pellets have been produced for over a century, by using heat and pressure small cylindrical pellets
can be produced from a variety of materials for different purposes. In the 1970’s some companies
who used pellet mills to produce animal feed, started to look into producing wood pellets as a fuel
source. However because of the cheap fossil fuels that were available, the wood pellet market
struggled to grow. In the 21st century wood pellets and fuel pellets in general are seeing rapid growth,
even resulting in supply problems. Due to high oil and gas prices and concerns over climate change,
fuel pellets are a clean and cheap heating fuel than can help to reduce global warming. The
advantages of pellets over burning logs or briquettes are as follows.