We in this nation waste everything, but one thing that concerns me the most is burning good urban wood in an incinerator to make energy for the moment and calling it green energy or using it as alternative daily cover (ADC) in landfills where it is also classified a green diversion. If you agree please sign my We the People Petition:
'Fraid not. But cut him some slack. It not the validity of the mass movement that attracts him, it is the movement itself that gives meaning to his otherwise bland existence.
The Monty Python folks had a skit once showing a meeting of the Committee to Stack Things Atop Other Things ("We have here a correspondence from the Coldstream branch. During the past week, they have managed to stack ELEVEN things on top of other things!" "Hear, hear!").
Wish we could get the environmentalists diverted to such a project. It would serve their personal needs ... as well as ours.
We in this nation waste everything, but one thing that concerns me the most is burning good urban wood in an incinerator to make energy for the moment and calling it green energy or using it as alternative daily cover (ADC) in landfills where it is also classified a green diversion. If you agree please sign my We the People Petition:
The trees were gonna die and rot someday (if left on the ground) anyway, if they were not used as building material. If they rotted (oxidized) naturally the same amount of CO2 would have been emitted. If they were buried so deep that they got no biodigestion, they'd fix carbon and keep CO2 from the atmosphere. If they were used as building material, they essentially fix carbon as above. So, what's the problem?
"We the people" is a bad name for a petition until it is proven that it is overwhelmingly supported by a VAST majority of knowledgeable folks.
I have heard people say that it's okay to kill cows for meat but not deer, because cows are ugly and not free to roam, whereas deer are pretty and free spirits. Go figure. Are you one of them, too?
-- If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Must be an alternative vegan diet thing. Let 'em go for it!
-- If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Around here, we take our demolition wood, shrubbery, and other green waste to the JoGro facility. They take sludge from the solid waste treatment plant, mix it with ground greens and some ammonia, pile it high, let it cook, and it turns into some really nice non-organic compost. I use it as mulch in the yard, saving organic compost for my garden.
Pass the venison, please!
-- If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
They are bio-mass. We just got one up and running.
Since there are fires in the forest around here - and tree farms - Burnt trees are not useful in wood industry or paper. The carbon and the hard resins are the evil parts.
So they are sent to the biomass plant to be ground up.
Also the city cuts trees - they go there not ground fill or compost piles if the piles are ample for the year.
We ourselves have oak that we burn but the sweetgum and pine we won't.
Might use splinters of pine to light a fire but not a log or bolt.
The Bio-mass plant can burn any wood fuel coal fuel and gas fuel. It is a state of the art plant. We are lucky to have the booster close in as the hurricanes blow over thousands of trees a year - those are normally burned in the field - smoke and all. Far better in a biomass as it burns hot and scrubs the exhaust for anything that might escape the recycled exhaust.
Consider the wood in the field - rotting and termites which produce more ozone gas as they digest the trees to nothing.
The energy content of wood is minuscule compared to petroleum products. Burning wood is why there are few forests in Europe. They were all converted to charcoal during the Middle Ages.
They are paying dearly now. I happen to be in Italy right now. Heating oil is the same price as diesel at the pump. I paid $7.64 a gallon yesterday. Typical home temperatures in winter are about 60 degrees.
3.875 liters. I converted to US gallons and US dollars. They sell by the liter and price by the Euro. Right now it is Euro1.44 to Eero1.54 depending on location. The Euro today is 1.354, better than it has been for months.
the US even have a litre?
3.875 liters. I converted to US gallons and US dollars. They sell by the liter and price by the Euro. Right now it is Euro1.44 to Eero1.54 depending on location. The Euro today is 1.354, better than it has been for months.
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