Hey.

Are you using wood right? Did you know that it's actually okay to chop woods - but not to burn it because of the CO2 pollution? This is a new video that tells you about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni4Cy9gLsPs

*head in hands* This makes my head hurt. My second career choice was in forestry management

Ok... the theory goes like this. Trees sequester carbon... therefore if you trap the carbon in a log and bury/store it in a place it won't degrade like in the bottom of a lake or turn it into a cabinet that carbon is trapped.... in theory forever. You grow another tree and repeat the process thereby reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

This of course is assuming you believe the following:

Human beings can impact CO2 levels in the atmosphere in 50 years or less.
That there are enough heat generating sources in the world besides wood to meet demand.
That processing this wood and storing it doesn't require as much carbon as burning the stupid log in the first place.
That the resulting short term biomass will be less than the original tree cut down.

The main issue I have with this junk science is that it doesn't take into consideration the bigger picture of energy required to do these environmental tasks and negates the people in this world that NEED a cheap energy source for warmth. Honestly if they were really all that interested in pulling carbon out of the atmosphere they'd be looking at how to store algae blooms. The problem is it's really hard to sell that idea.

Oh yeah... Hi Dan! Welcome to the Forum.

I absolutely LOVE starting a fire on a cold, winter night when I get home from work!

Reminds me. I need to go clean up the property of a couple oaks that blew down during storms.

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I absolutely LOVE starting a fire on a cold, winter night when I get home from work!

Reminds me. I need to go clean up the property of a couple oaks that blew down during storms.

Of course it's cosy to have a nice little fireplace The point is that a lot of wood can be recycled or used as building material... and that's way better then to burn it.

We absolutely love our wood burning fire place and use it constantly through the winter, and have absolutely no plans to stop any time soon. In my mind, trees are a renewable crop (with some exceptions)and are great for numerous uses... building, burning, climbing, protection in paint ball games, etc...

I'm a woodworker, furniture etc. What I don't use in lumber gets cut up for the woodstove. The logs go to the mill, the limbs etc get cut up into good old firewood. I really like a good fire. Like my daddy use to say; burning wood warms you twice. Once when you cut it and split it, then when you burn it.

DFrost

While it produces CO2 it's still better than fossil fuels. The CO2 in those were fixed millions of years ago. When burned the CO2 is released and will not be fixed again for another few million years.

Wood on the other hand has a CO2 cycle from 5-20 years long meaning the CO2 was fixed when the trees were growing and is released while burning. It will be fixed again when a new tree grows to replace the original tree.

I use a multi fuel stove. It burns wood pellets, corn, wheat, soy beans and cherry pits (corn is the cheapest so I burn that). These fuels have a 1 year cycle. The CO2 is released while burning but taken back and fixed by the plants the next summer when the crops are growing. Almost anything you burn will produce CO2 but the shorter the CO2 cycle the better environmentally.

If we can't burn wood, how am I supposed to get rid of the growing mound of used SchH dumbbells?

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If we can't burn wood, how am I supposed to get rid of the growing mound of used SchH dumbbells?

You could build a cute, really small, square lincoln log dog house!

I'd say, don't let them chew them up to begin woth.