Ladies and Gentlemen, invest in a chain saw today. There is plenty of excess biomass which is waiting for you to foil all the Arab Oil there ever was.
Wood? You have got to be kidding me. The powers-that-be here in the SF Bay Area are working feverishly to ban wood on so-called “Spare the Air” days. They will send their troop inspectors out into the neighborhoods and use remote sensors to detect if your chimney is exceeding Ringelman 1 (a measure of opacity caused by smoke). If you are exceeding the limit, you’ll get a ticket.
The first tickets won’t amount to more than a warning, but they rapidly go up to $1,000 for succeeding violations. This will ban wood burning on about 20% of winter days. I’ve got no doubt this is nothing but a prelude to a complete ban on wood heat because, as we all know, envirowackos will NEVER EVER be satisfied with the environment until all humans are exterminated.
Me too. Don’t use a thermostat, just the ol’ Blaze King.