you would think they could find something to do with that much sawdust.
Pack it into fuel logs compressed with some paraffin and you have logs to heat your home
Seems like an awful waste.
Cant they bulldoze the non-burning sections away?
Why would you process it into fake logs when there’s a nearly limitless supply of real logs all around you for hundreds of miles?
Please stop with the logic!
One would think so. The nearest town has river transportation roughly in the center of Irkutsk Oblast, the Russian equivalent of a state. This Oblast is roughly 12.24 times the size of West Virginia and roughly the same shape. Not exactly a convenient location but, compared to much of Siberia, not exactly isolated either.
The value of anything lies not only in its composition, but also in it's location. It needs to be transported to a location where it can be manufactured into something of value, and then transported to local retail locations. It's very likely the transportation costs exceed the value.
What would YOU do with 25 acres of sawdust in the middle of Siberia?