Here’s the facts as I know them:
A tree on my acreage that falls and dies and rots releases X amount of CO2.
If I take that same tree and use it for heat, it releases the very same X amount of CO2...no more, no less.
I have heated all through this winter’s cold spell with wood. While propane soared so high it became a matter of governor declared emergency in many states, I was just fine and toasty at home. I do have propane backup.
I heat my water, my house, and my wife’s quilt studio with our wood burning central boiler. I have no doubt that I’m saving energy, money, and even pollution. I allow my trees to replenish. I take down the dead, dying, and unhealthy, because it just makes sense.
I’ve thought of using wood to run a steam generator to power electricity throughout the year.
I’m amazed at the EPA’s hatred of the middle class and poor. Our poor in this county heat with wood and replenish their freezers with deer as their prime source of meat.
There you go again, using logic and reason. Doesn't work with progressives.
This is perfect government reasoning .
Ban wood stoves to eliminate smoke and the reason to cut fire wood .
Trees grow in the forest. Trees die in the forest. Trees fall down in the forest.
Forest catches fire . The forest smokes.
Not only that, forest fires are a lot harder to put out when they’re full of dead wood.