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Subject: [Leica] OT wood pellets for fuel
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sun Jul 27 06:12:37 2008
References: <23a0a61f0807261344y3eb76b94s36e506cd0a0f537d@mail.gmail.com> <C28CDE03-F0F2-4B2E-BF68-E70F478A86D9@frozenlight.eu> <4cfa589b0807270433l210b753ax600282224ae1fa84@mail.gmail.com>

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
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>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
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Replies: Reply from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] OT wood pellets for fuel)
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