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[neshura <neshura@gmail.com>]

It's not the CO2 that plagues the wood-based heating route, it's
everything else -- particulates and gases from incomplete combustion,
tars and carcinogens from DIY charcoal production, etc. -- summed
across the home heating requirements of 6 billion people.

Burning a tree is carbon neutral as long as you replace it with another.

It's one of those things where wood burning is great as long as hardly
anyone is doing it.

On 2/9/06, Nanette Echols <nanettechols@visi.com> wrote:
> I'm curious that wood burning is still acceptable considering the carbon
> dioxide and global warming issues of today. Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> Clint Popetz wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:17:49PM +0200, mitshell wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is anybody aware of wood burning stoves/heaters that can be loaded
> >>with wood once every 24 hours or something there about as opposed to
> >>the regular fireplaces that need to have wood added every few hours
> >>?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >24 hours is a bit out of reach, I think.  If you know what you are
> >doing (and I won't claim to, having heated my house with wood for only
> >two years) you can go to bed and not have to get up in the middle of
> >the night to feed the beast.
> >
> >I feed mine about three times a day in the coldest (-10 F) weather.
> >You have to get used to sleeping/waking chilly, which I now really
> >enjoy.
> >
> >It's not so much the type of stove I think, but how dry your wood is,
> >how good the species is, how thick it is, and how much thermal mass an
> >insulation you have in your house.
> >
> >                       -Clint
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