An eco-nazi once told me that a wood burning stove is carbon neutral (whatever that means) and thus approved by the central committee. So there you have it.
What does it all mean Mr Natural?
Don't mean shiite.
“. . . a wood burning stove is carbon neutral (whatever that means) . . .”
For those worried about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (I’m not in that crowd) it means the following:
wood + oxygen -—————> CO2 and water; then
CO2 + water (powered by sunlight) —————> trees (wood) + oxygen
So it’s essentially an endless cycle (with a bit of lag time while you wait for the
trees to grow) by which you convert the energy in sunlight to the heat energy
of burning wood.
Which is fine as long as you don’t denude your forests and as long as you realize that wood contains stuff that doesn’t burn cleanly and can give rise to smoke, smog, poisonous carbon monoxide and other fun stuff that enviro types would piss and moan about if somebody was generating those things industrially.