Well somebody near me obviously burns every cruddy thing they can find, judging by the smell. Who is going to police it? After all they do sod all when the diddies set fire to a pile of pvc cables to get the copper out, and that is poisonous! Brian
Steam locomotive boilers were designed to burn the local coal. Or even wood in the USA Not anthracite which was too expensive.
It's bollix. What you need is a good blaze once a week to burn away tar deposits. A few copies of the Guardian when the fire is good and hot.
Plus a properly designed chimney.
They are doing much the same with end-of-life wind turbine blades. All the CO2 that went in to their composite materials is being buried in landfill and of course will never rot down. Greta's transatlantic yacht will eventually meet the same fate.
Make everything of carbon composites!
If you take wood and compress it, and heat it, it slowly turns brown and then, eventually, black. The black stuff is then very stable over geological time. Also packs better than using non-toxic liquid...
Well, I'm not quite sure that *creating* a wind turbine blade has the same carbon footprint as growing a tree?
Sorry, a friend of yours has a transatlantic yacht that is also made of carbon fibre?
If it's carbon neutral in it's construction, actually captures CO2 (in it's construction) and is kept like that for a very long time then possibly yes. ;-)
Cheers, T i m
:-)
But later on he says: "I bought a manual-hydraulic log splitter to log up a couple of pretty large ash trees. That was both good fun and exercise. It was one of those ... 'I'm tired ... but just one more chog' sort of things. ;-)"
Not sure why someone would to log some 'pretty large ash trees' for fun and exercise and then discard the logs. He wouldn't allow them to be burnt of course as that would go against his principles of not releasing the carbon.
Giving off an alarming cocktail of toxic chemicals in te process.
No it isnt. It oxidises in contact with air.
The problem could be that good quality furniture usually need slow growing trees and for carbon capture you will need fast growing trees (repeatedly) harvested when the growth is relatively thin.
Yeah, but when you say 'eventually' ... ;-)
Is there a patent on that idea?
Cheers, T i m
It gives you an idea of the water content a few mm in by pushing the spikes in. The problem with having logs indoors for a short time is that the /outside/ will dry very quickly, thus giving the impression the whole log is dry. A moisture meter will soon show that the dryness really is only skin deep, and should not be put on the fire.
I never figured you for a Guardian reader, Harry.
Anyway, a regular hot burn is good, but if there has been a built up of crud in the flue, is more likely to set fire to it.
A properly designed log burner is perhaps the first requirement. Can chimneys be designed these days? I thought the regulations on how and where flue pipes are fitted is pretty restrictive.
Fastest accretion of biomass is wetland wood: willow and poplar. Its useless wood. Poplar makes liteply. Willow makes baskets and cricket bats.
Neither burns well
A fire sized log is air dried to its limit in around 6 months.
Sure, but there is something in between.
We can and do make a lot of good lasting last furniture out of softwoods, think of all those pine / Welsh dressers, sideboards, coffee tables and bedside cabinets out there.
There is also nothing stopping us making bigger sheets using 'lam' techniques with the ultimate usage of that being ply. We also have OSB than presumably be made out of smaller bits of timber.
I made a standard lamp in woodwork at secondary school with a turned lam base and straight timber uprights and it's still used daily round Mums.
Cheers, T i m
No difference between burning and rotting away. CO2 is still the end product.
Not if in contact with air!
Yes, I know, that's why I stated it above?
Cheers, T i m
Oh yes they do.
All been thought of years ago. Plus lots more.
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