Re: [Biofuel] concerns over Nova Scotia and Biofuel

2008-08-18 Thread Bernard
I just got a couple of loads of chips from one of the local arborists that clean up the roadsides of overhanging branches and yard wastes. Their truck is small, probably 4 to 5 cubic meters, the chips, regular, not especially small, and the temperature went up immediately to 57 degrees c ,

Re: [Biofuel] concerns over Nova Scotia and Biofuel

2008-08-18 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Bernard Thanks for this, nice to know. I just got a couple of loads of chips from one of the local arborists that clean up the roadsides of overhanging branches and yard wastes. So that would be all sorts of wood, good example. Their truck is small, probably 4 to 5 cubic meters, About

Re: [Biofuel] concerns over Nova-Scotia and biofuel

2008-08-17 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Fritz Hi Shan,Keith, burning biomass is one way of generating energie,composting it is probably less harmful to the environment! I think there's room for both, if it's done right so it fits, rather than forcing the local context to fit the technology (and of course the bottom-line). Eg,

[Biofuel] concerns over Nova Scotia and Biofuel

2008-08-17 Thread Fritz Friesinger
Hi Keith, thanks fore your reply! The concerns about chopped wood i appreciate fully! My woodshop was located for more than ten years in Montreal.There i had a dustcollector (for shavings),a towerlike silo,with a big (7'x7'x7') Industrial Wastebin. The rip was filled from the Tower two times a

[Biofuel] concerns over Nova Scotia and biofuel

2008-08-16 Thread SurpriseShan2
Forwarding with permission. Hey Everybody, If I said this article concerned me, that would be downplaying my thoughts very much. There is no filter small enough to capture the tiny particles of arsine that are released in a very breathable form when cca treated wood is burned.

Re: [Biofuel] concerns over Nova Scotia and biofuel

2008-08-16 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Shan a toxic dilemma probably never faced before. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6968574.stm World Facing 'Arsenic Timebomb', August 30, 2007, BBC News/UK Worthwhile checking the problems with arsenic in Bangadesh and what's being done about it. These links might be useful:

Re: [Biofuel] concerns over Nova Scotia and biofuel

2008-08-16 Thread teamfriesinger
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[Biofuel] concerns over Nova-Scotia and biofuel

2008-08-16 Thread Fritz Friesinger
Hi Shan,Keith, burning biomass is one way of generating energie,composting it is probably less harmful to the environment! I am building at this moment two woodhouses in doubleblocksystem (see my website www.boiseriestraditionnelles.ca house on Lac Labelle) The estimatet insulationvalue will