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I don't know about Europe, but Japan clearcut Korea. Pine pitch was refined into liquid fuel for aircraft.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Bob Stuart</div><div><br><div><div>On 7-Nov-10, at 10:25 AM, Tom Miles wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext">Watching <a href="http://www.google.com/url?url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045610/&rct=j&sa=X&ei=pMvWTJ7_PJKWsgP_soSNCw&ved=0CEcQggkoADAG&q=the+man+who+planted+trees&usg=AFQjCNFevtllE4nXKfZ9v5aahBfJ74ISbg&cad=rja"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Frédéric Back</span></a>'s animation of 'The Man Who Planted trees," a story by Jean Giono about a man who created a forest in a remote area of France, I came across the passage: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Pa0"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext">"The only serious danger to the work occurred during the war of 1939. As cars were being run on gazogenes (wood-burning generators), there was never enough wood. Cutting was started among the oaks of 1910. . ."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext">What was the impact of a million gasogenes on the forest of Europe during the war? Has anyone seen any estimates?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext">Tom<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="A2"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Gasification mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to Send a Message to the list, use the email address</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Gasification@bioenergylists.org">Gasification@bioenergylists.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for more Gasifiers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>News and Information see our web site:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org">http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org</a>/</div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>