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Creating heat is a big deal. Avendesora Send a noteboard - 19/11/2010 02:11:40 AM
Have you considered natural gas?

No I haven't. We currently have a very cheap source of wood.


Efficient use, of course; I'm aware that underground gas is a sink. But decaying wood releases less carbon into the atmosphere than combusting wood.

Now I want to run numbers.

Let me know what you find, just consider the carbon involved for every part of the process, including storage and transportation, as well as extraction.

Right now we use the wood that is the byproduct if my father's business, as well as the standing and newly fallen dead in the 115 acres that surrounds my house. It's about as local as fuel can get. Also, they are coming out with filters for the stacks of wood boilers to reduce pollution.

Edit: we also heat two homes with this system. I will note that we use about 1 cord more per year of wood with the outside boiler than if we put the wood in stoves inside. That's also with the older, less efficient woodstoves. Many use catalysts now.
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This message last edited by Avendesora on 19/11/2010 at 02:16:16 AM
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