log maker
I have two wood burning fires, one is an open fire and the other a wood burning stove. The cost of wood fuel that hasn’t risen in years suddenly rose by an extra £10 per cubic metre. This is because demand has increased as fossil fuels and electricity have rocketed in price.
I would like the small open fire in my sitting room to be a wood burning stove, but the cost is prohibitive as I must get the chimney lined and for a small wood burner and the lining I would pay around £1300. I think I might also get a small grant for this, but am not sure.
I dont really understand how anything can be ‘carbon neutral’ so is burning wood ok or just the lesser of a number of evils, or not even that.
To be Carbon Neutral is supposedly to balance the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by a particular activity, like flying, driving or operating a data center, with an equal amount of carbon sequestration or carbon offsets from a third party. To be considered carbon neutral, an individual or organization must reduce its carbon footprint to zero. (CarbonNeutral.com) However it may also seem that carbon neutral is a marketing term used to entice consumers with guilty consciences. Carbon neutral claims are a form of subsidizing efficiency programs that are usually good projects, but do not capture and neutralize the carbon emitted by the original polluting activity supposedly being mitigated. Burning fossil fuels do not become “climate neutral” because the person who burned the fuel pays to subsidize installation of photovoltaic panels or other equipment in another location. Carbon neutral would be true if usage of carbon-based fuels was offset by capturing of an equivalent amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Most carbon neutral policies displace increases in combustion of carbon fuels but that merely slows the increase of atmospheric carbon -which is not “neutral”-. (permatopia.com)
I remember once having one of those gadgets that compress wet paper and make paper bricks you can burn, much like the one below. But is it worth it, how well do they really burn and how much toxic crap is in the waste paper in inks and glues and glosses that is released into the atmosphere as it burns. Is it really so ecological. I am, beginning to see how eco is just a marketing ploy. Yet I think I will get one.
“eko-mania Heavy Duty Paper Log Maker – Green” (eko-mania)
I enjoy building up the fire and getting it going and not having to heat the whole house with the central heating just coz i am cold in one room. I have also an ‘eco’ boiler as the old one broke, well worth the outlay as it has halved the gas bill.
The question I am really asking is any of this ecological or just a ruse to make us buy more stuff
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