Posted on 07/23/2022 8:57:08 PM PDT by george76
Germany could embrace wood for heat if Russia further cuts gas flows, Deutsche Bank says.
The bank said in a note that it expects German demand for gas to fall 10% below 2021 levels.
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German households could turn to wood as a heating source this winter as gas supplies remain tight while Russia restricts flows to Europe,
Deutsche Bank .. expects gas consumption in Germany to be 10% below 2021 levels thanks to private households saving and high gas prices. It also noted that coal and lignite could emerge as replacements for natural gas in the industrial power sector.
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Deutsche's latest reading comes as Europe braces for a potentially colder winter than normal
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Then they’ll say because we had to burn wood we’re taking 3 years off the end of the world and now it’s only 5 years left ,LOL
I was in London and England back then (same years) but as a tourist for 4 months. Same era as you. More spent in Denmark.
Depends in the size of a tree. Near 2 foot in diameter and 60 foot tall red oak will give you a cord of the best firewood there is. 6 inch white pin or post oak, a few nights worth of wood.
One thing they’re probably not thinking of but will figure out is house design. We heat with nothing but wood but we have a small place with an open design. If you have bedrooms that are down the hall and maybe around a corner, the heat from that centrally located wood stove won’t reach the bedroom at all. For modern houses designed for more privacy and with central HVAC in mind and ducts going to each room, you really need a wood furnace that connects to that duct work. They sit outdoors or sometimes in a basement or garage. I don’t think they make a pellet wood furnace and Germany doesn’t have enough trees.
People are going to have to bunk up in the living room where the stove is. Then of course with the whole house not being heated, here come the frozen pipes. Germany is in for an education this winter.
That cedar is great for getting some oak going in a hurry though.
When do they start burning piles of euro bills to keep warm?
As much as I despise Vlad, he should cut off all German and European gas flows. These Green EU fairies n homos need to be brought back to ground and reality.
What any freeper says means nothing. Freezing in their dark German housing will
That was a rough time for me and the wife. My last year in the AF, third COT and got about $600/month as an E5. The rent was 100 pounds and the electricity, rates and all that pretty much relegated the wife and me to hot dogs and Stouffers macaroni and cheese (it was 25 cents then) so we’d have enough money for the baby’s food.
There was a potato shortage (both at the commissary and local levels) then and prices shot through the roof. I still remember to this very day how one day the wife took our son out for a walk through the little town and she was pushing it down a lane with rough cobblestones and a local farmer drove by with his cart full of potatoes. She correctly guessed that some would fall off so she followed it. By the time she got back home, the little hamper part of the pram was full of dropped potatoes. We both thought she’d struck gold! :0)
Shoestring wood burning stoves and wood pellets.
I would say import it from the US, but our forests are burning to the ground.
But, but, but… What about their carbon footprint.
When people are cold and hungry, they will warm up by throwing the eco-fascist’s head first into the woodchipper
Hey, the kraut blockheads wanted green energy and trees are generally green before you cut them down.
Folks need energy, food and steel.
Guess what Russia has for sale.
Guess what Europe needs to purchase cause it cannot produce
Soon they will have limits on how much firewood they can burn.
This scene from BECKET comes to mind...
King Henry is soaked in a rainstorm and wants to dry off, so he goes to a hovel and....
King Henry: GIVE ME FIRE! GIVE ME WARMTH!
Becket: You will find no fire here sire. Each hovel is allowed two measures of wood a year. One stick more and they are hanged.
Henry: My edict?
Becket: Your edict sire.
How many will do this? They haven’t used wood for a generation. Besides the stove you need the brushes to clean the flue. This will not work out well, carbon monoxide, fires...etc.
“...you really need a wood furnace that connects to that duct work. They sit outdoors or sometimes in a basement or garage.”
Right! I forgot about those things, I have a friend in Maine who has one of them. But it’s really a pain in the neck, you have to go outside and load in the wood, and of course you have to make sure the fire does not go out.
And, wood stoves are considered carbon dirty, right? Another friend could not get licensed as a day care because they had a wood stove, and it was NOT their main heat, just sort of quaint and decorative. But it was functional and that was enough to disqualify her home. That was in Connecticut.
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Some folks may build a used oil furnace
I think you meant Leningrad, but I get your meaning.
Not good times.
The best ‘used oil’ furnace is a wood stove with a small hole drilled in top for a small stainless steel tube with a flow-control valve.
The ‘used oil/waste oil’ is stored in a barrel overhead and to the side and runs through the small (1/8”-3/16”) SS tubing and into the firebox.
The flow-control valve only allows a slow drip of oil.
You fill your wood stove with good dry firewood and let the oil drip for awhile.
Then you light the stove as you normally would.
If you have the oil control adjusted right the firewood won’t burn and only serves as a wick for the oil.
Keep the oil barrel full and you can have a wood fire that never goes out or needs filling with wood.
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