Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not at all, Nathan, Emissions of CO2 are almost identical to the CO2 absorbed from the atmosphere when growing the wood, although a relatively small carbon footprint arises during processing and transportation. Close to zero-emission pelleting could be possible if the wood residues were fermented to produce ethanol as fuel for the plant and vehicles and then pressing the solid residues as pellets. Pellets are often made from sawdust, shavings, offcuts etc from wood processing industries. In the UK, there are already people practicing the ancient agricultural art of coppicing (cutting back branches without felling the trees) to produce wood for pellets. Cheers Douglas > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> It sounds like very environmentally unfriendly, unless there is some >> system >> that cleans the smoke. >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> On Jul 26, 2008, at 10:44 PM, simon jessurun wrote: >> >> >>> A friend of mine who lives in France just installed wood pellet burning >>> central heating. >>> The arguments for the system seem sound. >>> Does anyone here have experience with such a system? >>> simon >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >