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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Wood heat cheaper than natural gas
  • Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:38:09 -0800

This is especially funny, or sad, here in Coos County, where the voters actually bought their crap and voted to finance a natural gas pipeline into (or is it "out of") our wood-laden county:


Study finds conversion to wood heat would reduce energy costs of
Wisconsin schools.

The AP <http://links.mkt740.com/ctt?kn=52&m=906829&r=MTM3ODUwMTIzNwS2&b=0&j=NjI0OTM5MDIS1&mt=2&rj=NjI0OTM5MDIS1> (3/1) reported that a new study financed by Focus on Energy, a state program that promotes energy efficiency, "finds that up to 300 schools in Wisconsin could switch to wood heat and save hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs." With the "current natural gas prices," the change to wood heat "would save schools up to $75,000 each year, paying for the investments perhaps within five years." Don Wichert, director for Focus on Energy's renewable energy program, said, "There is this whole green movement. I think school boards are much more receptive to looking at environmental and renewable technologies." Wichert said conversion costs "vary from $100,000 to $2 million, depending on the size of the school." Rice Lake Superintendent Paul Vine said taxpayers in his district "a year ago overwhelmingly approved spending $3.8 million to upgrade and modernize a wood-chip burning boiler system installed in 1982 to make it more efficient." Vine said that "heating with wood has saved the district hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years."





  • [Homestead] Wood heat cheaper than natural gas, Bill Jones, 03/06/2008

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