[GBlist] SV: ÆGBlistÅ burning wood, was RFH and back-up system

[paj@multiconsult.no]

If you look into the details of buring wood you will find that it is not
considered a contributer to teh emissions of klimate gasses. Wood if left to
rot will produce as much klimate gasses as it does when you burn it. The
"polluntant" mentioned is the ashes spreding into the local air supply. In
cities it is no advisible to burn wood for heat. In the country however it
is dependent on the local wind conditions ect. 

The difference between burning wood and leting it rot is that it depletes
the soil of nutrients. The ashes are a good fertiliser and I use them in my
compost if it is too wet or spread then in my garden just before a rain. 

The morality of buring wood has to do with the source of wood. Rare species
should never be cut down for buring, but I wouldn't hesitate at buring
windfall. Here in Norway we have a net growth of natural forests which make
buring wood to not be an issue. However if you live in the plains and burn
the shade tree you really aren't doing anybody a favor.

In the commercial forests the birch is extracted to make room for pine and
fir. It is the birch that is used for heating over here. (you won't find
many oaks up here). Other then birch, pellets and bricketts are made from
industrial and forestry waste. 

I don't think you can talk about morality of the issue outside of your own
regional conditions as long as the forests are preserved and managed with
the environmet in mind.


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Fra: Steven Shepard [mailto:sbtdesigns@earthlink.net]
Sendt: 24. januar 2002 15:23
Til: greenbuilding@crest.org; Sacie H Lambertson
Emne: Re: ÆGBlistÅ burning wood, was RFH and back-up system


I won't be the judge as to whether it is immoral to burn wood or not but I
do know that I have 3.5 acres of live oak trees that shed limbs faster than
I can cut them.  Mother nature must want me to do something productive with
all that wood.  Winters down here don't last long enough to burn it all and
I don't have enough time or energy to cut it all.

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From: "Sacie H Lambertson" <dlambert@grasshoppernet.com>
To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:00 PM
Subject: [GBlist] burning wood, was RFH and back-up system


> Several have responded to the suggestion that it might be considered
> slightly immoral to burn wood, or at the least, that the practice is
> ungreen.  In some parts of the country where the population is more
crowded
> and where wood stoves are most commonly used, there can be a polutant
> problem--eg in Missoula Mt.--or where there are temperature inversions,
> such as Denver Colo., but here on 80 acres of mostly trees in NE Kansas in
> a county of 14,000 people, I don't worry too much about it.  Not many
folks
> in Kansas use wood as there sole source of heat.
> Furthermore, I know even the most efficient wood burning stove is not
> terribly efficient, but for us the fuel is free, the cutting of it is what
> I like best to do in the winter, (we have a log splitter), and most
> importantly, the trees on this land need desperately to be thinned to
allow
> some to grow tall and straight and large.  We are very good keepers of our
> land and I'm afraid I have no apologies for using the wood on it this way;
> aside from the aesthetics of the practice, we are greatly improving our
> property.   BTW, our nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away as the crow flies.
> Sacie Lambertson
>
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Environmental Building News and GreenSpec http://www.BuildingGreen.com
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