Posted on 07/07/2022 5:43:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Do they have the carbon credits to do this?
I don’t think so since they may be starting up more coal fired plants. We can sell them wood pellets made in Maine. The ships can load them up in Eastport, ME.
Jawohl!....................
Green EuroWeenies; time traveling back to the 19th century
Do they have the carbon credits to do this?
^^This^^
Invited to attend a Meeting about the Carbon Market. WTH?
German winters are cold - wood burning stoves make sense.
Yes, I’ve been there..................
If properly vented and managed a fire can be used inside a large tent to keep everyone warm. The Indians used Teepees that were heated by fires inside......
I think we had a shortage a couple years back. So we’re going to cut more trees? LOL
idiots getting what they voted for....
Wood burning stoves, the ultimate Green energy.
Wood....stored solar energy
All 40 million of them......................(they voted twice)
Wood (biomass) is considered renewable green energy by the EU because well you can grow more trees. Really. One of UK’s biggest power plants (Drax) is fueled by wood pellets imported from the US. I guess CO2 from wood is not as harmful. Or something.
Burning wood(cellulose) is considered carbon neutral because trees sequester CO2 their whole lives.
Burning wood pellets is not something new in European Continent. Neither are wood burning stoves. Some of the most efficient wood burning stoves are made in Scandinavia. Jutul is an example of these type of wood stoves. I had one in each of my two previous NH houses. Jutul stoves have been made in Norway since 1853.
I now have a Harman Pellet stove insert. IMHO it is the best pellet stove available in North America(made in PA). However, there are several Swiss and Italian manufactures of pellet stoves too.
Most of those pellet stoves are made to heat smaller square footage than the typical US house. That is because generally houses in Europe are smaller than the US/Canada.
There are also large industrial companies that burn wood pellets in Europe. They buy pellets by the literal BOAT load. About 20 years ago there was a big push for Torrification of wood pellets to be shipped from US/Canada to Europe. Torrification is a process where there char the pellets. Kind of like charcoal. This makes them more stable for bulk shipments by vessels because they do not absorb moisture as regular wood pellets. It also increases their BTU/ton. The idea was that these pellets could be burned in existing coal fired electric generation plants with some modifications. It would then make these existing plants “carbon neutral” without having to build new electrical generation plants.
This process never really took off big because Natural Gas became the low cost energy producer in the last 15 years. Now, gas is up so much in price people are going to find alternatives.
Now they’ll have a thick fog of wood smoke
1. Why does Europe, especially Germany, believe they are Entitled to the natural resources of another sovereign nation??
2. With out of control man made Global Warming threatening the Planet with spontaneous combustion from the burning of “fossil” fuels, Why are they worried about Heating their Homes??
Most pellets are by products of trees that are already cut. Meaning, the logs go to the sawmill. The sawmill produces shavings/sawdust as a by product of cutting lumber. That sawdust can be burned in house at a co gen plant like Seneca sawmills has in Eugene, OR. That sawdust can be balled and sold for animal bedding. That sawdust can be made into pellets like Frank Lumber or Blue Mountain Lumber in OR.
Most sawmills sell their shavings/paper to paper mills. However, the higher the demand for wood pellets becomes the more will end up as that. Pellets have become much more readily available in the northern part of the US. Every Home Depot, Lowes, Tractor Supply and several others sell them.
They are also used for animal bedding.
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