I have a very good stove. After the start up phase, you would not know I have wood heat. Particulates probably are not anything like the pollen the trees generate while alive. I do have a bushel of ash a year, approximately. That gets mixed safely into the ecosystem.
There is nothing fishy about the claim of carbon neutrality for burning wood. The 5 acres behind my home is fully forested, I don't even cut them down live. I burn deadfalls and what my neighbors have falling down. The speed of burning versus decaying washes out completely over time. The decay is combustion just by biological means. The cellulose is consumed by bacteria, ultimately (even if it first passes through some buggy digestive tract). The prehistoric biomass that became oil and coal was not decayed or the carbon would have already returned to the atmosphere. When a tree decays the carbon is in the air. The humus you see is simply not yet decayed completely. I am not going to get any more specific about carbon neutrality of wood burning. It is easy to find information on this (and misinformation). I have decided which on which side I am. If I was concerned I would not do it. My heat would be from gas, but I don't support releasing that by using wood. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Further, where did the idea that all the decayed wood's carbon goes into > the atmosphere. If that were true in general, we wouldn't have any fossil > fuels! Much of the decayed wood turn into humus and stays in the soil. > > The only argument I could buy is is you grow trees at the same rate you > burn them, you are probably carbon neutral. > > Peri > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: 22-Dec-14 10:00:44 AM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Pound-foolish batteries for solar PV off-grid > > ➢ A tree burned emits no more than a tree decayed on the forest floor. >> >> Ah, I knew they claimed that burning wood was carbon neutral, but I could >> not remember why. You just summarized it well. Though there are other junk >> from burning wood that we don’t want to breath (as noted by Mark:) >> >> Burning wood emits *lots* of air pollution, >>> particularly particulate matter, but also including ... >>> potent carcinogens, NOx (also a greenhouse gas), >>> CO (*dangerous* in closed spaces), and more. >>> >> >> And surely some of that carbon takes years to return to the atmosphere if >> not forever and so that can help our short-term problem better by not >> burning it (yet)... >> >> Bob >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ >> group/NEDRA) >> >> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141222/85539e60/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
